Barbra Streisand Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
-
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
-
It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
-
I don't like controversy.
-
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
-
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
-
I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
-
I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
-
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
-
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
-
If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
-
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
-
You've got to be realistic.
-
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
-
Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
-
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
-
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
-
I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
-
I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.
-
You need to see what the actor needs. This one wants to be talked to privately. That one doesn't mind if you block it for them. Just tell me the truth and I'll adapt to it.
-
Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.
-
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
-
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
