Whoopi Goldberg Quotes
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If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.
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I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
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[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
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[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
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I had gone through several crazy headache bouts, and I realized that part of the reason I was having them was because I wasn't smoking marijuana. When my daughter gave me a vape pen, I realized that I could relegate it to where I needed it to be. And I would talk to my older grandkids in their 20s, and they'd say they use weed to stop cramps. That's when I really started to investigate and asked the question, "Is anybody doing this?" And they gave me that horrifying answer: "niche market".
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If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'
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Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection from parents teachers and role models that can teach them about the danger, and keep them safe from sexual exploitation. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.
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I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
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If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
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You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is
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It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention
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I say if you're worried, vote smart. Vote smart.
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I'm as American as Chevrolet.
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Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.
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Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?
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Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
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I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film to do. And it shocked a lot of people, because they loved it, and they take it with them.
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There are times when I haven't been proud of America or really proud. But there have been times that I've been incredibly proud of the country.
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Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
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Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
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My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
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I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me . . .
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Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE