Barbra Streisand Quotes
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.
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Many men, labelled homosexual by themselves and others, want to be fathers. Their beliefs and those of your society leads them to imagine that they must always be heterosexual
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me
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I grew up at a time in Hawaii where there were trans women around, so there were visible role models for me. At the same time, as a low-income trans girl of color, there were so many things that I didn't have access to. I didn't have access to a great education. I didn't have access to affordable healthcare.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.