Barbra Streisand
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"Barbra Joan Streisand" is an American singer-songwriter, author, actress, film producer, and director. During a career spanning 60 years, she has become an icon in multiple fields of entertainment, winning numerous awards. Among those are two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy Award/Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors award, a Peabody Award, and four Golden Globes. She is among only 17 entertainers List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards/who have won an Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.

Streisand is one of the List of best-selling music artists/best-selling female music artist of all time, with more than 72 million albums in the United States and 145 million records sold worldwide, which makes her the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's Top Selling Album Artists list. She is also the only recording artist in history to have a number one release in six consecutive decades.

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Bitches. It's a very male-chauvinist word. I resent it deeply. A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible.

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

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.

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.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we appreciate each other's differences; one in which we are all equal but definately not the same.

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like ...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.