Famous Barbra Streisand Quotations

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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."
by Barbra Streisand
"A cross between an aardvark and an albino rat."
by John Simon (about Barbra Streisand)
"Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies."
by Marvin Hamlisch
"But it's hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned was the Lindy, And the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it."
by Judith Viorst
"I'm number 10 at the box office. Right under Barbra Streisand. Can you imagine being under Barbra Streisand? Get me a bag. I may throw up"
by Walter Matthau
"The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically."
by Barbra Streisand
"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."
by Barbra Streisand
"I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?"
by Barbra Streisand
"I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators -- they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?"
by 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 married?"
by Barbra Streisand
"I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven."
by Barbra Streisand
"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one."
by Barbra Streisand


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