Barbra Streisand Quotes
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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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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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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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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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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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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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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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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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 was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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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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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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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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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 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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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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My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
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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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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.