Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
BARBRA STREISANDIf I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I’m a work in progress.
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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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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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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.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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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.
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