Sandra Bernhard Quotes
Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.
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For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.
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I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
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I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.
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You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'
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Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.
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One had been dismissed - and subsequently executed - for a foiled assassination attempt on a higher ranking student, a second had been killed in the practice arena, and the third died in his bunk of natural causes - for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
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All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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In the early 1990s Muslims were engaged in more intergroup violence than were non-Muslims, and two-thirds to three-quarters of intercivilizational wars were between Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards.
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Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.
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Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think.
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That's how we invaded Iraq, through the fear of an 'evil empire,' and it just makes people feel like bulls with the toreadors - you see red, and you charge.
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I've slept through a mild earthquake in Italy. And also a very tight hockey game where people were screaming their heads off.
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Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask how the democratic citizen could 'participate' substantively in imperial politics; hence it is not surprising that the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates. No major politician or party has so much as publicly remarked on the existence of an American empire.
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I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.
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Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers...
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I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.
