I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
BARBRA STREISANDI’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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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 don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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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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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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