I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
BARBRA STREISANDLife’s too short. Start with Dessert!
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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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.
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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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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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