We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISANDI was a personality before I became a person.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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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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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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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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When I sing, people shut up.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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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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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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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’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 don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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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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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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