I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
BARBRA STREISANDA man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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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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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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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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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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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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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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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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