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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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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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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If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.
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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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The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
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The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.
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'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause.
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Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.
