Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?Whoopi Goldberg
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
Patrick deWitt -
I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
Manika -
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
Ralph Bakshi -
I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
Ted Cruz -
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett -
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. Salinger -
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
Uta Hagen -
I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
Gary Burton -
If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.
Liang Chow -
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
Johnny Mathis -
I've always wrestled against being typified in one way or another.
Bill Pullman
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I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.
Kesha -
I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
Kenneth Branagh -
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
Billy Higgins -
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.
Drew Barrymore -
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
Allison Anders
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Winning a major, that's what everybody wants to do, and I worked my whole life to do it. And to realize that, it's incredible.
Jimmy Walker -
Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric.
James Howard Kunstler -
I'm very close to thinking the United States shouldn't be in Basel any more. I would not have agreed to rules that are blatantly anti-American. Our regulators should go there and say, 'If it's not in the interests of the United States, we're not doing it.'
Jamie Dimon -
I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.
Ellie Goulding -
I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?
Whoopi Goldberg