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Barbra Streisand

I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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Baffled Issues Moving
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Acting Actresses Class
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Dream Every Men Woman
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.
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Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
I never sing in the shower either.
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Either Showers Sing
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Light Name Young
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.
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Choices Health Winning
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Feet Hurt Style
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Opinions People Political Thinking
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Different People Weird
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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Country Perfect Years
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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Believe Mean Strength
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Actress Get Singer Work
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
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 hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra
The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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Dream Hope Lying
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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Home Important Worry
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
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.
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Awards Mean Together
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

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