We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
BARBRA STREISANDBeing a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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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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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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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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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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What 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.
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