My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISANDI like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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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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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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I need instant gratification.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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I’m a work in progress.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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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 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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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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