Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges it has confronted are any worse now, or, alas, even much different, from what they ever were.
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After 'Shirdi Sai,' I wanted a total image makeover. I was looking to transform myself.
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Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
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For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives.
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If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
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In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.
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Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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I turned around and she kind of had some tears in her eyes.
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I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
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I'd love to do a superhero movie, like a remake of Wonder Woman.
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My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
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I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
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I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
