Barbara Quotes

• Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Santa Barbara, Paradise, May

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.98, Verso

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• I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ridiculous. At least now, the press has stopped.

  Lauren Bush

  Kids, College, Thinking

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• I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

  Rita Coolidge

  Journey, Records, Jazz

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

  Courtney Love

  Love, Mean, Wake Up

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• Barbara did the selecting, and that's probably the most brilliant thing, was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

  Star Jones

  Different Experiences, Together, Groups

  "CNN Live Today" with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 30, 2006.

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• If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

  Tom T. Hall

  Careers, Figures, Mines

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• And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine

  Tom Selleck

  Hero, Jordan, Accomplished

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• People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'

  Robert Teeter

  Son, People, Guy

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• The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me

  June Allyson

  Roles, Millions

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• The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Attitude, Past

  Umberto Eco (1984). “Postscript to The name of the rose”, Harcourt

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• Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

  Katy Perry

  Mean, Santa Barbara, Married

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• Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

  John McCain

  United States, Defense, Boxers

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2010.

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• What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.

  Ed Fallon

  Mean, Gay, Iowa

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• This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the line of sight. It's no longer an external conflict, like, oh, I have all these demands and I don't like them. The split is in the self. This may explain why, when I was in Santa Barbara before I went to Singapore and then now to Hong Kong, there was a writing moment when I was writing a poem a day. I had never done that before.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Hate, Writing, Sight

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

  Judith Viorst

  Girl, Age, Trying

  Judith Viorst (1970). “It's hard to be hip over thirty and other tragedies of married life”

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• In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, Years, Law

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's State of the Union address, millercenter.org. January 24, 1995.

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• It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Santa Barbara, Sea, Land

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• I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Couple, Writing

  "The GQ Cover Story: Katy Perry" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 21, 2014.

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• Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

  Jane Pauley

  Sound, Now And Then, Notion

  "Jane Pauley Says Goodbye". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com.

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• I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

  Robert De Niro

  Mean, Actors, Actresses

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• Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Issues, Firsts, Nancy

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• I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.

  Martin Gore

  Santa Barbara, Years, Wife

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• I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

  Jenny Eclair

  People, World, Admire

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• Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.

  James Dobson

  Prayer, Judging, Wisconsin

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• Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.

  Pico Iyer

  Medicine, Kyoto, Santa Barbara

  Source: scottlondon.com

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