How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
BARBRA STREISANDArt does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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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 never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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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.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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I’m a work in progress.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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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.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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