The Voice and the Thoughts

Barbra Streisand verbatim:

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My mother never really thought I could become anything.

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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

Barbra Joan Streisand

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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

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I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

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The audience is the barometer of the truth.

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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.

The Liberal Liberators

Here are just a few of the landmarks of American progress championed by liberals and opposed by conservatives: The end of slavery; women’s suffrage; the end of segregation; gay marriage; the end of prohibition; banking regulations to prevent economic piracy; prohibition of child labor; minimum wage laws; workplace safety regulations; the 40-hour work week; Social Security; Medicare and the forbidding of torture.