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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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in gold, and I will hand them out to everyone I know.
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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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You don't swing where you sleep.
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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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Reagan, people claimed, was too old to run for president and to be elected. But he proved himself such a vigorous campaigner in the primary system that he overcame those beliefs.
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Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.
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I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'
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When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.
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I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
