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.
BARBRA STREISANDI find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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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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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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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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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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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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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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