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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

Barbra Streisand

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 STREISAND

Funny Inspirational Success
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISAND

Limit My Own Want
When I sing, people shut up.
BARBRA STREISAND

Explanation People Shut Up
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
BARBRA STREISAND

Election Issues President
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting My Own School
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
BARBRA STREISAND

Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
BARBRA STREISAND

Chinese Restaurant Work
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Judging Lag Umpires
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
BARBRA STREISAND

Design Furniture Special
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISAND

Avocados Smell Taste
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Balance Doubt Two
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Celebrate Law Men School
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
BARBRA STREISAND

Believe Reality Truth
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISAND

Head Men World
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

History Hollywood Name
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actress Get Singer Work

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