Barbra Streisand Quotes

Art transcends politics this weekend.
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Art Politics Transcend Weekend
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
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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Father Mother Teacher
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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Creeps Saws Wanted
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Articles Malicious Slander Tired
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?
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Mother Son
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Decorate Home Lot
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Actress Get Singer Work
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Gross Kind Money Talk
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Life Live Moments
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Country Frightening People Person
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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Impossible Men Right
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
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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Opinions People Political Thinking
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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Believe Mean Strength
I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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Home Important Worry
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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Felt Interesting Knows
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work
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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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
BARBRA STREISAND

Heritage Noses Talent

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