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.
BARBRA STREISANDThe 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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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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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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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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I need instant gratification.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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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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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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