It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
BARBRA STREISANDThe audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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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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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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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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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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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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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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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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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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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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