Barbra Streisand Quotes

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

Barbra Streisand

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What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

Jessica Hahn

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I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.

Jenna Dewan

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The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.

Melvyn Bragg

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People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my fans, why not put the two together?'

Max Schneider

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Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.

John Howard

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I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

Sigourney Weaver

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When you're around somebody all the time, you butt heads every now and then. That's what happens in every family.

Trae Young

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I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Robert Fitzgerald

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For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Robin Williams

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In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

Robin Williams

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My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.

Ruth Ozeki

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I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Jonathan Lethem

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