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 STREISANDWe elected a President, not a Pope.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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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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I need instant gratification.
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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’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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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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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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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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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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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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