I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
BARBRA STREISANDPart of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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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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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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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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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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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’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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