I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISANDA 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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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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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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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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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 knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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