Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISANDYou don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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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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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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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 don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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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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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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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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