Barbara Quotes - Page 4

• My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Retirement, Teaching, Santa Barbara

  "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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• The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Book, Positive Thinking, Self

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• When Barbara Walters called , she said, "Donald, I want to put you on as one of the top 10 most fascinating people." I could say no. And then, I could advertise a project that I`m doing, like doral or something. And spend half a million dollars on it or a million dollars, or I can do the show and spend nothing, and be on for a lot longer."

  Donald Trump

  People, Top 10, Half

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don't want to be Oprah [Winfrey], I'm not trying to be Barbara Walters, but we can all do better.

  Chelsea Handler

  Trying, Want

  Source: variety.com

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• When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every afternoon my friend and I would pour grape juice over mounds of ice cream and settle in to see what was happening with Barbara Stanwyck and Linda Evans and the boys in The Big Valley.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Boys, Ice, Escaping

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• There are many artists I would like to have the honour to cooperate with. To accompany Barbara Streisand or Paul McCartney or Elton John would be a dream for me as I have a lot of admiration for their voice, their talent and their charisma.

  Richard Clayderman

  Dream, Artist, Voice

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never been engaged, despite popular belief.

  John Krasinski

  Special, Answers, Belief

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• Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that we met there just because we were living with Bernard. Some of them became our friends, particularly the younger artists, but we were privileged to at least meet and talk with the older artists also. And they would come to dinner, and we would simply be included in the conversation, which was quite fascinating.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Artist, Numbers

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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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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• I was really nervous, because I was certain it was going to be bigger than anything I'd ever done before. But I was relieved when I actually discovered that there was a family atmosphere on the set, with a brother-sister team, Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson running it all.

  Naomie Harris

  Running, Brother, Team

  ""Skyfall"-ing for a Bond Girl - Naomie Harris". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed.

  Sam Hamill

  Country, Powerful, Hate

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• We don't have a caucus, because we differ on so many views. Some of us are pro-choice, some are not. We'll take the issue of drilling, for example: Lisa Murkowski would want to drill in ANWAR, Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, and most of us would say no, and so we don't. But we get together once a month for dinner, and we have three rules: no memos, no staff, and no leaks; and we get together for friendship. In fact, we're having a dinner tonight. We just have drinks and talk about life and times.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Views, Issues, Choices

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag.

  George Carlin

  Douchebags, Remember, Silver

  "George Carlin... It's Bad for Ya!". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.

  Lara Fabian

  Queens, Inspiration, Journey

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• Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the kind words about meBut the insights you have for the Comedy racket.You're Barbara Hershey, we are beaches.

  Taylor Negron

  Beach, Laughter, Thinking

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• I know I'm going to have to get beyond being George H.W. Bush's son and Barbara's son -- for which I'm really proud. And I'm going to get beyond being George W.'s brother for which I am extraordinarily proud as well, there's a lot of interest in finding the ways that we are different and all this. Well, the simple fact is that we're all on our own life's journey -- my brothers and sister are different than me.

  Jeb Bush

  Life, Brother, Son

  "Jeb Bush's challenge: Family loyalty" by Maeve Reston, Alexandra Jaffe and Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2015.

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• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli OHara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  Laura Osnes

  Dream, Cooks, Following

  "INTERVIEW: Laura Osnes Enters Café Society". Interview with Ellis Nassour, www.theatermania.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

  Ted Olson

  Mind, Retrospect, Wells

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• Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers.

  Alan Abel

  Animal, California, Santa Barbara

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.

  Kirk Douglas

  Husband, Play, Hollywood

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I was a very lucky kid, because I grew up affluent Santa Barbara, California. My experience as a child was probably so different from people I met later who grew up in the rural South, where many doors were closed to them.

  Floyd Norman

  Children, Kids, Santa Barbara

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Cancer, Years, Giving

  Source: robdarnell.com

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• I guess politicians can be excused for thinking the electorate is stupid because they keep winning reelection. If you were Barbara Boxer or Harry Reid and you kept being reelected, you'd have to think, 'Half of my state is stupid.' But then you wouldn't be smart enough to think that if you had their brains.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Stupid, Winning

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• In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

  Rex Reed

  Passion, Angel, Greatness

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• Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Media, Voice

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