Barbra Streisand Quotes

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

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• I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Independent
  • Security
  • Independence

• I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Different
  • Women
  • America

• A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Trying
  • You
  • Race

• 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.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Personality
  • Safety

• 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.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• 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.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • God
  • City

• 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.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Feel
  • Baseball
  • Decisions

• I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Amazing
  • London
  • Milan

• I'm trying my best.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trying
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Right

• 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.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Different
  • Think
  • Single

• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• 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.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • Today

• The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Learn
  • Goal
  • Company

• Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Virtue
  • Reputation
  • Rarely

• All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Age
  • Learn

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • School
  • Practice

• As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Always

• Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • May
  • Suffering
  • inspirational

• And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Star
  • Sea
  • Green

• I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Star
  • Just
  • Mouth