Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
BARBRA STREISANDJust like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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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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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I need instant gratification.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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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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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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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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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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