I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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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 can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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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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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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