Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
BARBRA STREISANDA human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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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 like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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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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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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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.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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