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.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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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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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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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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Everyone 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.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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 arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I’m a work in progress.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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