I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISANDI do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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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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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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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 don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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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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I still like my antique clothes.
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