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?

Barbra Streisand

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I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I walked into school, and no one ever picked on me again. I suddenly believed in myself and respected myself. I had some inkling of my power, so the bullying stopped instantly.

Jillian Michaels

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A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

John C. Maxwell

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Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

Maurice Saatchi

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My dad has this beautiful spirit of being able to create no matter where he is. He's always been so selfless with our family. It's hard to put words to it. He's an incredible man.

Matt Lauria

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The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Sidney Sheldon

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From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.

Tom Chatfield

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I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

Roland Martin

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It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Mo Rocca

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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Jules Renard

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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de la Bruyere

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In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.

Jonathan Krohn

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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Chauncey Wright

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