Whoopi Goldberg Quotes
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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 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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I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
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Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.
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I dig being a mother.
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Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE
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My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
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When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?
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When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.
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Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.
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I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.
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I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
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[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
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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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Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
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Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
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I don't really view communism as a bad thing.
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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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You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
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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'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?
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Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
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If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.
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I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.