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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.

Barbra Streisand

I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ridiculous Stars Stupid
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Mean Together
How 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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Men People
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
BARBRA STREISAND

Congratulations Ice Cream Success
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Generation Signature
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
BARBRA STREISAND

Definitions Inevitable Progress
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
BARBRA STREISAND

Clothes Country Teenager
I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gross Kind Money Talk
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Parent School Son
There is nothing more important in life than love.
BARBRA STREISAND

Important Life Love Nothing
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISAND

Avocados Smell Taste
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
BARBRA STREISAND

Fun Lines Orchestra
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
BARBRA STREISAND

Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical

I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.

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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.

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