Barbra Streisand Quotes

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Success is having a baked potato come of the oven just right. Nor raw and not overdone. Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Barbra Streisand
A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it — that's possible.

Barbra Streisand
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

Barbra Streisand
It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.

Barbra Streisand
I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

Barbra Streisand
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons, and eating only the top half of each of them.

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I feel smudgy today. You know, splotchy, like ink spilled and you spilled water on it.

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Not too long ago we were referred to as dolls, tomatoes, chicks, babes, broads. We've graduated to being called tough cookies, foxes, bitches and witches. I guess that's progress.

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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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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.

Barbra Streisand
The dream — you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

Barbra Streisand