Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
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I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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Fage does not make great yogurt.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.
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Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions.
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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
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There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.
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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.
