To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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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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 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 love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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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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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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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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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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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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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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