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Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.Whoopi Goldberg
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We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.Whoopi Goldberg
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People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.Whoopi Goldberg
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I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.Whoopi Goldberg
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Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.Whoopi Goldberg
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Art is long, life is short.Whoopi Goldberg
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Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?Whoopi Goldberg
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We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.Whoopi Goldberg
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Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance than justice.Whoopi Goldberg
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It never occurred to me that somehow women did know about it. It just never occurred to me. Yes I am wearing sneakers too. You are in a suit, I am comfortable. So when she explained to me that this was the first event really of its kind, it floored me. So I called my daughter who is in her 30s now and I said “do you know what endometriosis is?” She said, “what? Have to pack the pack the busters.” I said “no man, you have never heard of it?” No she said. I do not know what it is, and it occurred to me that my 30-year-old daughter who I told about endometriosis and it didn’t stick. If she didn’t know, and she is one of the hippest people I know, and her daughter doesn’t know, she has 19-year-old and she is a 13-year-old. The boy, we don’t care much about if he knows about it so much. There is other stuff for him to learn. Like how to roll a condom, things like that. You know, and it occurred to me that if they didn’t know that there were hundreds of thousands girls out there that don’t know. It is not because their mothers don’t want to tell them, because it’s not religion, it’s pure ignorance. We don’t know, we don’t have the information, we have it now, and so now is why this very first gathering is happening. Now is why we’re all sitting here looking really fabulous as you are..[ Whoopi Goldberg on endometriosis awareness from the 2009 Blossom Ball] .Whoopi Goldberg
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We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You have a duty tonight. You only have to tell one other person what you heard. Just tell them what you heard, or ask them have you ever heard of this? If the answer is no, share what you learn tonight. That’s all. You don’t have to do anything else. You just have to tell somebody else. You have to take whatever stigma people think that is there. You have to take it. It’s not male or female. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with, here’s a disease you don’t know about and you need to know about it. It’s that simple. It’s not rocket science.[ Whoopi Goldberg on endometriosis awareness from the 2009 Blossom Ball] .Whoopi Goldberg
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I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.Whoopi Goldberg
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When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.Whoopi Goldberg
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We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.Whoopi Goldberg
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My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.Whoopi Goldberg
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If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.Whoopi Goldberg
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I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.Whoopi Goldberg
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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.Whoopi Goldberg
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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.Whoopi Goldberg