It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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