If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
BARBRA STREISANDPart of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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I still like my antique clothes.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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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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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 takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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The 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.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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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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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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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