How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
BARBRA STREISANDIssues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I’m a work in progress.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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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’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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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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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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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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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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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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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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