Barbra Streisand Quotes
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I grew up on films.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.
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Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed.
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I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the bottom of a river, At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains, My mind moves in more than one place, In a country half-land, half-water. I am renewed by death, thought of my death, The dry scent of a dying garden in September, The wind fanning the ash of a low fire. What I love is near at hand, Always, in earth and air.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
