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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

Barbra Streisand

Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
BARBRA STREISAND

Balance Doubt Two
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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Ridiculous Stars Stupid
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
BARBRA STREISAND

Blue School Years
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISAND

Culture Needs Sick
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
When I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
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
I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Done Feelings Grown Son
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 knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Mines Mouths Stars
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
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
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Progress Wings 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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Believe Mean Strength

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

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