Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
BARBRA STREISANDI’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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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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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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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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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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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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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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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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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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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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