Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.
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I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.
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I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
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I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
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Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.
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If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.
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Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
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There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
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It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.
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When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.
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Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.
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You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.
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When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.
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I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?
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I'm somebody who can absorb a lot.
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I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.
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I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.
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Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.
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I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
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When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
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Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.
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I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.
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Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.
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The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.