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.
BARBRA STREISANDWhat 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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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.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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