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 STREISANDWe 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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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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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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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 is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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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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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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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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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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