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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.

Barbra Streisand

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
BARBRA STREISAND

Impossible Men Right
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
BARBRA STREISAND

Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
BARBRA STREISAND

Light Name Young
I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
BARBRA STREISAND

Care Lunch Nice
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISAND

Avocados Smell Taste
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Everything Know Learn Sure Want
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
BARBRA STREISAND

Artist Citizen Stay
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Perfect Years
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ridiculous Stars Stupid
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Men People
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Home People Sick
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Mother Should
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Interesting Over Trust You

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