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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.

Barbra Streisand

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
Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Dessert Life Short Start
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Awards Mean Together
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
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
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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Drama Honesty Thinking
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 like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Decorate Home Lot
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
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

I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.

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