Barbra Streisand Quotes
I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
Quotes to Explore
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.
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There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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I don't pretend to be perfect. I want people to see me as I am.
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Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
