I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
BARBRA STREISANDYou don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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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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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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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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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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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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