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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Barbra Streisand

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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Interesting Over Trust You
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Unexpected Unexpected Places
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
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
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.
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Home Important Worry
It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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Artist Speaking Up Voice
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Beautiful Selfish Simple
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
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
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Actresses Began Hope Jobs
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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Different Jobs Men
When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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Parent School Son
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
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISAND

Head Men World

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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