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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Barbra Streisand

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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
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

Badass Passion Women Work
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND

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

Culture Needs Sick
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
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
BARBRA STREISAND

Law Racism Time
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
BARBRA STREISAND

Unexpected Unexpected Places
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
BARBRA STREISAND

Baffled Issues Moving
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
BARBRA STREISAND

Experience Instinct Natural Worry
One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting Actresses Class
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Honor School
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISAND

Children Kind Taught
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Frightening People Person

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