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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.

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
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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Ridiculous Stars Stupid
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Head Men World
I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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Biographies Errors Someday
The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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Dream Hope Lying
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Elastic Simple Thing Waist
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
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
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Silly Successful Tradition
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Doing Right Fame
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Mines Mouths Stars
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

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