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.
BARBRA STREISANDMy mother never really thought I could become anything.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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 arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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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’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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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.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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