I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISANDAnd remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I’m a work in progress.
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Being 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.
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I need instant gratification.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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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 wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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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’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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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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