Whoopi Goldberg vs. Nancy Pelosi
Read 11 entries attributed to Whoopi Goldberg alongside 20 attributed to Nancy Pelosi. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 11 entries attributed to Whoopi Goldberg alongside 20 attributed to Nancy Pelosi. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: life, family, knowledge, gender, time. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Whoopi Goldberg, entry #7106: "But I want very much to be accepted as a good actor, and I have to admit this. Just before the first screenings of The Color Purple, I had some doubts about my name. Steven had to…"
Attributed to Nancy Pelosi, entry #125179: "everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access."
Side-by-Side Comparison
Whoopi Goldberg
1955
Caryn Elaine Johnson, known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of few people to receive an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Tony Award, collectively known as the EGOT. In 2001, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
"But I want very much to be accepted as a good actor, and I have to admit this. Just before the first screenings of The Color Purple, I had some doubts about …"
#life"Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it."
#art"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."
#technology"The name was a fluke. A joke. It started when I was doing A Christmas Carol in San Diego. We'd sit backstage and talk about names we'd never give our childre…"
#family"Thanks! Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted this! You don't know...my brother sitting there, he says "Thank God we don't have to listen to anymore... you…"
#knowledge"Actresses can only play women. I'm an actor, I can play anything."
#gender"I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape."
#knowledge"Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, an…"
#knowledge"I'm an actor. That's what I do. I'm not a stand-up comic. I do characters. I'm very good. I'll be better. But right now I'm a very good actor."
#ethics"Well, when I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house. 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick…"
#time"For many, many, many years, there were not Jews in Israel. Okay?"
#timeNancy Pelosi
1940
Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first female elected speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, heading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. Her 20 years as a House party leader are tied with Joe Martin's as the second-longest after Sam Rayburn.
"everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access."
#health"Getting back to our Founders — in the darkest days of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote: "The times have found us." The times found them to fight f…"
#politics"A brazen invitation for something like this to happen"
#writing"A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
#gender"As many of you know, I come from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one—it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means."
#knowledge"Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice’ to be heard?" -Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek"
#family"China would prefer Joe Biden, whether they do, that's their conclusion, that they would prefer Joe Biden. Russia is actively, 24/7 interfering in our electio…"
#mind"Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern , the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ir…"
#time"I have ordered the flags at the Capitol lowered to half-staff in Officer Sicknick’s honor. The sacrifice of Officer Sicknick reminds us of our obligation to…"
#time"I have said to people when they ask me, if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain would be our commitment to our aid, I don’t e…"
#mind"The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then yo…"
#justice"You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation…"
#life"Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House."
#gender"Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped."
"You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. Bu…"
#Human Nature"I ask that you immediately cease plans to improperly install Michael Ellis as the new NSA General Counsel"
#wisdom"hey had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true."
#truth"With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a …"
#hope"I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table."
#language"I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush …"
#hope