Whoopi Goldberg Quotes
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My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
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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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I have a production company, and we work with reality TV producers 44 Blue. They asked if we'd like to get involved. When they explained that it was the first transgender modeling agency, we said, "Yeah, of course!"
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If you had women running the weed market, I think there'd be lots of different products. I know periods. I know how horrible they are, and I know enough people who suffer from them that I really want to speak to them so they can carry something in their pocketbook for relief. Or come home, get in a tub, and soak with something that will actually work.
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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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I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, "Get the government out of my backyard," the reality is, you can't say that and put somebody in the White House who's gonna be in your business.
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I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.
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Sometimes experience trumps assumption.
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I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?
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I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.
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I dig being a mother.
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Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
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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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Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE
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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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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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You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.
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Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make . . . One of the reasons we've had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean - that was the reason the law came into effect.
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I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
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[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!