Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISANDAs a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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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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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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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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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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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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