Barbra Streisand Quotes

People are always ready to pull you down.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

People want you to fail.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it.

It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

The moment our youth succeed, we try to figure out how to tear them down.

Bottom line: People in our business are always going to look to find reasons to see the negative in somebody and to become resentful.

Duke has a lot of haters, but I know it means you're doing something right if they're hating you.

People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice.

Haters will always hate.

There are always going to be haters.

There are people who would love to see me fail.

There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.

Those who feel threatened by you or your success will seek to tear you down.

When you're good at something, there's always someone to spit on you.

People are looking for a way to tear down anyone who is successful in any arena. That's the way fans are.

There's always someone who wants to make you look bad.

Taylor Swift said haters are going to hate.

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people - I categorize them as life's losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability, they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.