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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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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You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.
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In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
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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.
