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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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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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'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 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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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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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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 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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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 don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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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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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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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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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 raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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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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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.