Barbra Streisand Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I'm trying my best.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.
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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.
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People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
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I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.
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Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
