I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISANDArt is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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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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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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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 got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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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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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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