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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.

Barbra Streisand

You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mind Negative Remember
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Choices Health Winning
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Ideas White
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
BARBRA STREISAND

Appreciate Done Years
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
BARBRA STREISAND

People Song Writing
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
BARBRA STREISAND

Experience Instinct Natural Worry
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dream Every Men Woman
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dull Flamboyant Pure
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)
BARBRA STREISAND

Ideas Song Thinking
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Badass Passion Women Work
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
BARBRA STREISAND

Citizens Hate Tell Wish
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Selfish Simple
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Mean Together

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