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Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Art Truth

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Husbands Marriage Men Men And Women Wives Women

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Feminism Men Women Work

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Childhood Highs Lows

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Self Knowledge

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Doing Why Right

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Father Mother Me

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

Barbra Streisand Good Believe Ego

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.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Crazy People Stronger

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.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Arrogance Exercise

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Work Passion Man

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Work Men Why

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand School Man Law

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Work Change Man

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Worry Instinct Go

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Best Moment Judge

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Love American Special

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand You Discover Got

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Myself Mirror Nose

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Love Smell Taste

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.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Good Details Artist

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.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Thank You Dress People

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

~ Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Me Eating Top
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