I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
BARBRA STREISANDDoubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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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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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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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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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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I still like my antique clothes.
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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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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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I need instant gratification.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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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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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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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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