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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

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
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Progress Wings Years
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Heritage Noses Talent
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
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
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
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’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Color Falling House Love
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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Air Men People
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
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.
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Celebrate Law Men School
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music

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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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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