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My mother never really thought I could become anything.

Barbra Streisand

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
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.
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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Articles Malicious Slander Tired
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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Believe Reality Truth
I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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Thinking Tough Way
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
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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Badass Passion Women Work
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISAND

Culture Needs Sick
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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Gay Ideas White
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Silly Successful Tradition
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Light Name Young
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Head Men World
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

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