When I sing, people shut up.
BARBRA STREISANDprogress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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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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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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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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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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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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