On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
BARBRA STREISANDThe idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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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 truth.
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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?
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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.
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One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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