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I was a personality before I became a person.

Barbra Streisand

He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Mother Son
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
BARBRA STREISAND

Baffled Issues Moving
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lying Take Truth
I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
BARBRA STREISAND

Care Lunch Nice
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Frightening People Person
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
BARBRA STREISAND

Friendship Loss Lost People
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Challenges Thinking
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
BARBRA STREISAND

Audience Care Name Product
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
BARBRA STREISAND

Choices Health Winning
I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lips Months Three
I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Articles Malicious Slander Tired
I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
BARBRA STREISAND

Bulls Loss Red
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Interesting Over Trust You
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISAND

Limit My Own Want
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
BARBRA STREISAND

People President Remember

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