Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
BARBRA STREISANDWe cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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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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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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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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 can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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I’m a work in progress.
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