Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
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• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Time
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• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
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• I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
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• I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Strong
  • Know
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• ...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Success
  • Wish

• Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Violence
  • Dumb

• 8) History never repeats itself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • History

• That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men

• 'Well, what are you doing? What have you done?' 'I am sitting in this char,' said Poirot. 'Thinking,' he added. 'Is that all?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'It is the important thing,' said Poirot.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Done

• We can freely acknowledge the tremendous struggle ahead of us, and yet choose to remain decidedly optimistic, and to work from a fundamental belief in the possibilities of the future. … Every time we explain how a better future might be built, we redraw the boundaries of the possible.

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Future

• 'The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal...'(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Father
  • Die
  • Star

• In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats

• With all of the media and all of the pressures of the times, we have to have a spiritual foundation in order to survive. It's truly what I believe.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.

  

  Carol Loomis
  • Option

• The continuum had somehow managed to correct the incongruity, pairing off lovers like the last act of a Shakespearean comedy, though just how it had managed it wasn’t clear. What was clear was that it had wanted us out of the way while it was doing whatever it was doing. So it had done the time-travel equivalent of locking us in our rooms.

  

  Connie Willis
  • Time
  • Done
  • Comedy

• There is the potential for dreams to come true, for records to be broken, and medals to be won, and at this time everyone believes that they individually have the potential to make their dream a reality.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • Records

• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Honesty

• Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness.Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

  

  Frank Borman
  • World
  • God
  • May

• Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Ignorance