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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

Barbra Streisand

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Country Frightening People Person
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Progression Time Waste Wasting
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Courage Fear Frightened
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Avocados Smell Taste
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
BARBRA STREISAND

Being Believe Unique Yourself
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Awards Mean Together
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Unexpected Unexpected Places
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gross Kind Money Talk
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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Interesting Over Trust You
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Mother Teacher
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting Actresses Class

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