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I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
Barbra Streisand
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Barbra Streisand
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 24
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I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.
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I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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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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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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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Why don't you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I'm a little low in sugar and I don't have any cream, but it's real coffee.
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