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Barbra Streisand

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
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 a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
BARBRA STREISAND

Artist Speaking Up Voice
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
BARBRA STREISAND

Despise Hate Our Society
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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Friendship Loss Lost People
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
BARBRA STREISAND

Light Name Young
I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lips Months Three
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Creative Stars Thinking
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 is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dream Every Men Woman
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
BARBRA STREISAND

Choices Health Winning
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Myself Talking Work

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