I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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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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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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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 care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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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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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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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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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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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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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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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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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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You 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?
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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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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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