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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Barbra Streisand
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Barbra Streisand
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 24
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Barbra Joan Streisand
Barbara Joan Streisand
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'
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For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual and moral path for all people to follow. The danger inherent in this is its explicit refusal to accept anyone who happens to lead a different lifestyle, and the condemnation of those who differ.
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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.
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I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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