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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

Barbra Streisand

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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Home Important Worry
Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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Couple Life Motivation
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Ideas White
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
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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Impossible Men Right
I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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Ideas Song Thinking
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Light Name Young
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Actresses Began Hope Jobs
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Courage Fear Frightened
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
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
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Frightening People Person
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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Earth Humans Love
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
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
I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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Care Lunch Nice
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Audience Care Name Product
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Actresses Mother Should
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Father Honor School
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
. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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Growing Interesting People Up
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

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