Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
BARBRA STREISANDI just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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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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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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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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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 is nothing more important in life than love.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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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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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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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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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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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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