I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
BARBRA STREISANDThe 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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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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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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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’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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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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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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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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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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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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