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I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
BARBARA STREISAND I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive,...
BARBRA STREISAND [Barbra Streisand submits the unreleased] I Believe, ... I Will Not Be Broken.
BONNIE RAITT Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
KEVYN AUCOIN I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines....
HUGH GRANT I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!
LAUREN LONDON Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
GIORGIO MORODER If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't goo...
NORMAN GRANZ Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and ap...
KEVIN HART As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs ...
PATRICIA HEATON Is Barbra Streisand coming to the Oscars? Because she'll look awful. I love that dirt show after the...
KATHI NAHASS I thought Barbra Streisand had walked on stage, ... When they wouldn't stop clapping and when they s...
JULIE CHEN I knew we were cutting hits when we did the album. It's Barbra Streisand we're talking about, so I k...
HAROLD COWART We thought of her with Barbra Streisand, Barbara Boxer, Rob Reiner, Charles Schumer, even. Now I see...
CHRIS MATTHEWS I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the o...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the ...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have tha...
JESSIE WARE The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people ...
COLIN MOCHRIE unattractive, implausible, crazy, but beautiful.
JOHN BAHCALL You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles,...
BOBBY WOMACK Many celebrities have appeared on the cover of Playboy, but not nude, including Claudia Schiffer, Pa...
LAUREN MALONE As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, ...
FERGIE I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the o...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's be...
LAUREN LONDON Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include B...
TED DEUTCH The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' A...
BARBRA STREISAND My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' A...
BARBRA STREISAND I am too lazy to be lazy.
ANONYMOUS When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I ...
BILLY EICHNER Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - t...
IDINA MENZEL Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later dis...
BILLY PORTER My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village Pe...
MARJORIE GUBELMANN Simple people have simple problems, complex people have complex problems - Dzanar Abbas-Zade
DZANAR ABBAS-ZADE I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want ...
DITA VON TEESE I am selfish. I am brave.
VERONICA ROTH There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticat...
BARBRA STREISAND I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy bl...
BARBRA STREISAND I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISAND I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a bras...
BARBRA STREISAND Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough w...
BARBRA STREISAND Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
BARBRA STREISAND Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she...
BARBRA STREISAND I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so...
BARBRA STREISAND I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberato...
BARBRA STREISAND A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yours...
BARBRA STREISAND The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the pe...
BARBRA STREISAND The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A mome...
BARBRA STREISAND Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to distur...
BARBRA STREISAND Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm woul...
BARBRA STREISAND Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the...
BARBRA STREISAND We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employ...
BARBRA STREISAND I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISAND Timeless -- Live In Concert,
BARBRA STREISAND Al Gore has won the election.
BARBRA STREISAND How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
BARBRA STREISAND The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the enviro...
BARBRA STREISAND Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling fo...
BARBRA STREISAND Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obse...
BARBRA STREISAND Bitches. It's a very male-chauvinist word. I resent it deeply. A person who's a bitch would seem to ...
BARBRA STREISAND I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession,...
BARBRA STREISAND I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is ve...
BARBRA STREISAND What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? Th...
BARBRA STREISAND The audience is the barometer of the truth.
BARBRA STREISAND I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of ...
BARBRA STREISAND My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please hel...
BARBRA STREISAND I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and sa...
BARBRA STREISAND I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put t...
BARBRA STREISAND It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them....
BARBRA STREISAND I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my...
BARBRA STREISAND It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to...
BARBRA STREISAND Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terri...
BARBRA STREISAND I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISAND You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISAND If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it...
BARBRA STREISAND My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don...
BARBRA STREISAND A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too...
BARBRA STREISAND Normally, I would not dignify vicious, mean-spirited mythology masquerading as biography.
BARBRA STREISAND It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the w...
BARBRA STREISAND I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colo...
BARBRA STREISAND I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have...
BARBRA STREISAND I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic wa...
BARBRA STREISAND I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISAND Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my spec...
BARBRA STREISAND I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience
BARBRA STREISAND To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It i...
BARBRA STREISAND Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally...
BARBRA STREISAND Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the sc...
BARBRA STREISAND We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
BARBRA STREISAND I couldn't even call her. I was heartsick.
BARBRA STREISAND I Believe
BARBRA STREISAND The Mirror Has Two Faces.
BARBRA STREISAND I loved the first stanza, because to me this war is kind of senseless, and I don't know why we're th...
BARBRA STREISAND I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
BARBRA STREISAND A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust you...
BARBRA STREISAND Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
BARBRA STREISAND Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
BARBRA STREISAND I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so unhealthy for the culture. ...
BARBRA STREISAND

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There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticat...
BARBRA STREISAND I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy bl...
BARBRA STREISAND I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISAND I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a bras...
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BARBRA STREISAND Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
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BARBRA STREISAND I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so...
BARBRA STREISAND I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive,...
BARBRA STREISAND I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberato...
BARBRA STREISAND A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yours...
BARBRA STREISAND My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' A...
BARBRA STREISAND The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the pe...
BARBRA STREISAND The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A mome...
BARBRA STREISAND Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to distur...
BARBRA STREISAND Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm woul...
BARBRA STREISAND Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the...
BARBRA STREISAND We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employ...
BARBRA STREISAND I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISAND Timeless -- Live In Concert,
BARBRA STREISAND Al Gore has won the election.
BARBRA STREISAND My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' A...
BARBRA STREISAND How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
BARBRA STREISAND The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the enviro...
BARBRA STREISAND Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling fo...
BARBRA STREISAND Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obse...
BARBRA STREISAND Bitches. It's a very male-chauvinist word. I resent it deeply. A person who's a bitch would seem to ...
BARBRA STREISAND I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession,...
BARBRA STREISAND I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is ve...
BARBRA STREISAND What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? Th...
BARBRA STREISAND The audience is the barometer of the truth.
BARBRA STREISAND I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of ...
BARBRA STREISAND My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please hel...
BARBRA STREISAND I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and sa...
BARBRA STREISAND I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put t...
BARBRA STREISAND It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them....
BARBRA STREISAND I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my...
BARBRA STREISAND It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to...
BARBRA STREISAND Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terri...
BARBRA STREISAND I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISAND You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISAND If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it...
BARBRA STREISAND My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don...
BARBRA STREISAND A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too...
BARBRA STREISAND Normally, I would not dignify vicious, mean-spirited mythology masquerading as biography.
BARBRA STREISAND It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the w...
BARBRA STREISAND I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colo...
BARBRA STREISAND I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have...
BARBRA STREISAND I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic wa...
BARBRA STREISAND I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISAND Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my spec...
BARBRA STREISAND I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience
BARBRA STREISAND To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It i...
BARBRA STREISAND Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally...
BARBRA STREISAND Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the sc...
BARBRA STREISAND We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
BARBRA STREISAND I couldn't even call her. I was heartsick.
BARBRA STREISAND I Believe
BARBRA STREISAND The Mirror Has Two Faces.
BARBRA STREISAND I loved the first stanza, because to me this war is kind of senseless, and I don't know why we're th...
BARBRA STREISAND I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
BARBRA STREISAND A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust you...
BARBRA STREISAND Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
BARBRA STREISAND Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
BARBRA STREISAND I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so unhealthy for the culture. ...
BARBRA STREISAND What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The la...
BARBRA STREISAND Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND There is nothing more important in life than love.
BARBRA STREISAND What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other . . . but for two people to hav...
BARBRA STREISAND Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work ...
BARBRA STREISAND And remember, this was a president [George W. Bush] who was selected by the Supreme Court rather tha...
BARBRA STREISAND I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberato...
BARBRA STREISAND I'm very grateful to the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who have been so support...
BARBRA STREISAND Jim, I'm delighted to be here as your wife. I'm very proud of you.
BARBRA STREISAND I can only think of fear. I really don't know. Maybe it will stop their sales, or they'll think peop...
BARBRA STREISAND I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, super...
BARBRA STREISAND I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with...
BARBRA STREISAND The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, ...
BARBRA STREISAND Carla ... The Jack Paar Show.
BARBRA STREISAND Just the sadness of, we're there, but don't want to have those people in harm's way, and yet we do h...
BARBRA STREISAND I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
BARBRA STREISAND I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
BARBRA STREISAND I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and sa...
BARBRA STREISAND I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questiona...
BARBRA STREISAND I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world d...
BARBRA STREISAND It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
BARBRA STREISAND I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISAND New York critics - I hear when one of them watched A Star Is Born, he talked back to the screen.
BARBRA STREISAND They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
BARBRA STREISAND I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
BARBRA STREISAND How could such a destructive man [George W. Bush] be so popular with the American people? Not only i...
BARBRA STREISAND Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly ...
BARBRA STREISAND Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
BARBRA STREISAND What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have m...
BARBRA STREISAND I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsess...
BARBRA STREISAND Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
BARBRA STREISAND My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high...
BARBRA STREISAND When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was kno...
BARBRA STREISAND The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the pe...
BARBARA STREISAND Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
BARBARA STREISAND Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she...
BARBARA STREISAND I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so...
BARBARA STREISAND I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberato...
BARBARA STREISAND I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
BARBARA STREISAND After I slid down the wall for the third time, breaking every single fingernail in the process, I fi...
BARBRA ANNINO Book covers got very boring for a time. Then they improved with shiny ones, and now they come in fab...
BARBRA MONTEZ They are on all the school lists, and it's fun for students because now they come in a variety of co...
BARBRA MONTEZ We can't keep them in stock. People are buying them by the handful. They are so cute and cheap.
BARBRA MONTEZ They are absolutely fun and a hot seller.
BARBRA MONTEZ Chance stifled a grin, and all I could think was that this girl had to be related to me. Only women ...
BARBRA ANNINO She must have been tired, because instead of jamming the whip down Monique’s throat, she stood up ...
BARBRA ANNINO But I’m not one to read a book backwards.
BARBRA ANNINO My fault? How the hell is this"--I waved my arm across the table-- my fault?"

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BARBRA ANNINO