Barbra Streisand Quotes
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.Barbra Streisand
Quotes to Explore
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell -
You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
Caleb Landry Jones -
I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
Yuna -
Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
Patrick Ewing -
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell -
I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
Zuleikha Robinson -
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Lance Morrow -
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
Eddie Marsan -
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
Ilie Nastase -
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
Lady Gaga -
Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
Karen Kain -
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut -
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
Harold Wilson -
As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
Victoria Pendleton -
I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.
Brent Scowcroft -
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand