I was a personality before I became a person.
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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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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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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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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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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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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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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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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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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