I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISANDJust 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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I 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.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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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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