Sandra Bernhard Quotes
Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
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When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
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When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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People love music, but they also love the lifestyle and glam that comes along with it.
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When I was at my lowest, Tom Cruise reached out to me. He believed in me when other people didn't.
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I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.
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The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park.
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I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.
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I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.
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Television is the triumph of machine over people.
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The Pakistanis are very resilient people.
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
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I'm not one of those kind of people that likes to beat up the past to validate the present. Certain people think that it's cool to make fun of MC Hammer. I'm like, 'Yeah, but you owned all of his records.'
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I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.
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Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
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Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.
