Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
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How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.
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One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.
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I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.
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If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.
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Science is all very well when a man can afford to make it his hobby, but I have come to the conclusion that a man has no right to ride a hobby while his family have to work to make a living.
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We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.
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I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
