Latest Roseanne Barr Quotes from Interviews

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• Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.

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  War, Slavery, Earth

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

• Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs get thrown only when people cannot honestly talk together.

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  People, Suffering, Together

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

• No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.

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  War, Government, America

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

• I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not.

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  Common, Utopia, Envisioning

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

• As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of it, simply left Judaism. We became Buddhist and Hindu and atheist or agnostic, all of which (except Christian) were more in keeping with peaceful self-transformative ideas that did not bow down to militarism.

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  Christian, Buddhist, Atheist

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

• Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.

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  Get Away, True Things, Paid

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

• Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

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  Country, America, Adults

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

• The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

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  People, Want, Entertainment

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

• A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.

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  Artist, Views, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

• Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

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  Ears, Truth Is, Available

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

• I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.

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  Believe, Rights, Law

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

• Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

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  Easter, Humanity, Comedy

  "Q&A: Roseanne Barr, on marijuana, the CIA, and how she is, in fact, the president". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

• Pot enables you to think clearly without any fear or any limits. It's a mind-expander, which is part of why it's illegal and why drugs like Vicodin are legal.

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  Thinking, Drug, Mind

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

• I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

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  Want, Hell, Politician

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

• I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"

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  Stars, Tears, Comedy

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

• I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

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  Pits, Remember, Punk

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

• When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own show when I grew up. And it's going to be funny.

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  Vision, Littles, Grew Up

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

• My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.

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  Dad, Eye, Laughing

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

• When I was three, I fell and I got Bell's palsy in my face. My mom said the first day she called the rabbi, and he said a prayer for me but nothing happened. The second day she called the Mormons, and they said a prayer for me and my face was healed, so my whole life was going around as a Jew who was giving talks in Mormon churches about being healed by the Mormons.

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  Mom, Prayer, Giving

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

• I used to play Barbies with my Mormon neighbor friend; it was always, "Oh, we're going to go on a date. Ken's taking us out, and we're going with Ken on a date." And I was like, "We're parachuting behind enemy lines to save the Jews." That's how I played Barbies. I was told when I was a girl that every Jewish woman has to have five children to replace three fifths of our people that were killed. That's how I was raised.

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  Girl, Children, Play

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

• I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

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  Years, Parent, Taught

  Source: www.elle.com

• We had no religion at all, but we were Jews in New Hampshire, and my sister - who is now a rabbi - said it best: We were, like, the only Jews in Bedford, New Hampshire, as well as the only Democrats, so we just kind of associated those two things together. My dad raised us to believe that paying taxes is an honor.

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  Dad, Believe, Two

  Source: www.elle.com

• Honestly, a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel.

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  Dating, Notes, Etiquette

  Source: www.elle.com

• My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I would get approval, and it made my arms itch with glee. I got addicted to it. It became this source of power in a totally powerless life.

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  Dad, People, Age

  Source: www.elle.com

• I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.

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  Taboo

  "Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, and Roseanne Barr Talk Judaism, F-bombs, and Radical Feminism". Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.