Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.
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I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
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I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
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For me, Warhol made so much sense.
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.
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Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
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I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.
