I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISANDPart of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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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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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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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 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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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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