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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.

Barbra Streisand

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

Culture Needs Sick
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Earth Humans Love
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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History Hollywood Name
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Progression Time Waste Wasting
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Mines Mouths Stars
There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Important Life Love Nothing
I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
BARBRA STREISAND

Bulls Loss Red
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?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
BARBRA STREISAND

Fun Lines Orchestra
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
BARBRA STREISAND

Chinese Restaurant Work
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
BARBRA STREISAND

Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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People Stars Talent
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Creative Stars Thinking
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISAND

Given Self Self Esteem
I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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Care Lunch Nice
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brooklyn Girl Thinking
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

Exercise Hype Ties
. . . 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
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
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 don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work
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
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
When I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Actress Get Singer Work
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Dream Every Men Woman

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