Barbra Streisand Quotes
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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From caring comes courage.
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I love taking chances.
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I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.
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Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.
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Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.
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To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
