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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.

Barbra Streisand

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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Perfect Years
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISAND

Children Kind Taught
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISAND

Given Self Self Esteem
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
BARBRA STREISAND

Congratulations Ice Cream Success
When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
BARBRA STREISAND

Parent School Son
One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
BARBRA STREISAND

Impossible Men Right
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lying Take Truth
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
BARBRA STREISAND

Heritage Noses Talent
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Feet Hurt Style
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Honor School
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elastic Simple Thing Waist
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Mother Teacher
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
BARBRA STREISAND

Friendship Loss Lost People
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
BARBRA STREISAND

Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
I need instant gratification.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gratification Instant Need

I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.

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