I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISANDBeing a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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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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