The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me.
Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.
Barbara Fitts: I'm so sorry for the way things look around here.
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.
When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation.
When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.
I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'
No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
