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.
BARBRA STREISANDOn a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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