I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
BARBRA STREISANDHow could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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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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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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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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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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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.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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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’m a work in progress.
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