I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISANDI think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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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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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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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 go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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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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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.
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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 am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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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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