I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
BARBRA STREISANDI was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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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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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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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’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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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 only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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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 do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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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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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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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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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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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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