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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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Barbra Streisand
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 24
Actor
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Brooklyn
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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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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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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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I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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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'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.
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I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do believe that belief and imagination manifests reality. And therefore, even though it took twenty-five years, I did find the house, eventually, and the man I could live with.
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You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end.
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I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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