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.
BARBRA STREISANDI find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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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 can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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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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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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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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