My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
BARBRA STREISANDYou have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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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’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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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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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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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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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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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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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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