The audience is the barometer of the truth.


Barbra Streisand

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[Barbra Streisand submits the unreleased] I Believe, ... I Will Not Be Broken.
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Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
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I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!
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If you are in doubt, you are close to the truth
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Three things can not be hidden; The Sun, The Moon, and The Truth.
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She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
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What is the Other?" they ask.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
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What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I...
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs ...
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Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
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Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
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First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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कुत्ते और आदमी में बुनियादी फर्क ये है...
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To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it,...
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It is safe to say that every truth in the histories of those times (The Bible) is the result of acci...
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No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
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We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
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Family is the most important thing in the world.
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As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
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My dad's not a big talker.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
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I'm an affectionate person.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
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I don't think about the media.
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I love the sport and being competitive.
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