Barbra Streisand Quotes
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
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Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
