Whoopi Goldberg Quotes
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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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In order to sell in all the different places where medical marijuana is legal, you have to build a facility and grow in the state you're selling in, so it's daunting.
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Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
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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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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 don't really view communism as a bad thing.
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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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Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
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You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.
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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 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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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 eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.
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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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That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
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Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.
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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 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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Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
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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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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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[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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[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
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Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE