I was a personality before I became a person.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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 hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Doubt 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.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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