Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
BARBRA STREISANDDoubt 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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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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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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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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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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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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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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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