Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
BARBRA STREISANDI must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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 very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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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 have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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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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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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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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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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