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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

Barbra Streisand

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Barbra Streisand
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 24
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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.
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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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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
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I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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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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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
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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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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.
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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.
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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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