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All Quotes by author - Barbra Streisand
" 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. "
Balance
You
Need
" How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination. "
Time
I Wish
Discrimination
" I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. "
I Am
Lazy
Simple
" I can take any truth; just don't lie to me. "
Truth
I Can
Just
" I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. "
Name
Care
Me
" I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt. "
Stage
Like
Enjoy
" If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday. "
Music
Listen
Holiday
" I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way. "
People
You
Feeling
" I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations. "
Just
My Own
Limitations
" I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something. "
Mine
Star
Something
" I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat. "
Like
Simple Things
Simple
" I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle. "
Truck
Bench
Dog
" I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. "
Smell
Love
Taste
" In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive. "
Music
Business
Admire
" I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway. "
Great
Living
Remember
" I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn. "
Myself
Brooklyn
Girl
" 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. "
Think
Process
Work
" I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. "
Good
Art
Artist
" I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air. "
Hot
Raised
Air
" Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. "
Half
Me
Only
" 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. "
Strength
Small
People
" We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. "
Exercise
Republican
Family
" 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. "
Dress
You
Thank You
" 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. "
Strength
Stubborn
Crazy
" When I sing, people shut up. "
Up
People
Shut
" You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. "
Discover
Trust
You
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