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.
BARBRA STREISANDEveryone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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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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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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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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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’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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