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

Barbra Streisand

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
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.
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Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Interesting Over Trust You
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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Feuds Stars Winning
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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Culture Needs Sick
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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Bias Country Humane Ideas Liberal Media
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
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Country Frightening People Person
I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Everything Know Learn Sure Want
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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Funny Inspirational Success
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 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
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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Art Challenges Thinking
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Appreciate Done Years
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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People President Remember
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 wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
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
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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Felt Interesting Knows
There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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Children Love Matter Mature
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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Singing Thinking Way

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