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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

Barbra Streisand

Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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Crazy Strength Two
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
BARBRA STREISAND

Celebrate Law Men School
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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People Song Writing
It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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Artist Speaking Up Voice
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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Idols Play Thinking
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Awards Discouraging Giving
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Artist Citizen Stay
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’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Different People Weird
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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Father Mother Teacher
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Progress Wings Years
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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Brave Late Subjects

I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

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