progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
BARBRA STREISANDEighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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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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One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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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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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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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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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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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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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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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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