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Barbra Streisand

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
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
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Progress Wings Years
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Awards Discouraging Giving
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
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 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
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
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?
BARBRA STREISAND

Different Jobs Men
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
BARBRA STREISAND

Being Believe Unique Yourself
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISAND

Singing Thinking Way
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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Play Wish Writing
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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Gay Mother Son

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