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.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
  • High

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Difference
  • Bread

• It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Hard

• My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Money
  • Small
  • Film

• Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Audience
  • Impossible
  • Task

• Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Media
  • Social Media

• 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.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • High
  • Food
  • Body

• I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Something
  • Get
  • Become

• 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.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Life
  • Men
  • Husband

• 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!'

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • God
  • Amazing

• Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Practice

• All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

  

  Karen Blixen

• 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.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Violence

• Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.

  

  Clifford Odets
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • People
  • Fear
  • Evil

• I've slept through a mild earthquake in Italy. And also a very tight hockey game where people were screaming their heads off.

  

  Carl Kasell
  • People
  • Game
  • Hockey

• Beautiful eyes are those that show, Like crystal panes where hearth fires glow, Beautiful thoughts that burn below.

  

  Ellen Palmer Allerton
  • Beautiful
  • Eye
  • Shows

• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Up
  • Emotional

• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Black

• I'd like to go back and revisit the Flash/Captain Cold relationship, because that to me has been the heart of it all along. My impression is that The Flash is a show about a boy's journey into manhood. For the Flash character, there is a variety of male models presented to him, and Captain Cold is one of them.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Journey

• Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

  

  Sandra Bernhard