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.
BARBRA STREISANDHe (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?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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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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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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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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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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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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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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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 don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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