I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m a work in progress.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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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.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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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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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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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 was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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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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