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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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'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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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.
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People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.
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Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task.
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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.
