Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I need instant gratification.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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When I sing, people shut up.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.