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I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Whoopi Goldberg
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 13
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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 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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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.
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The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.
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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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My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.
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If You don't like Gay Marriage, Don't Marry a Gay Person.
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You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time.
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Sometimes experience trumps assumption.
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Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.
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We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model] we know a lot about it.
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