Sandra Bernhard Quotes
In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
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I became conflicted in my late teens.
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Is it ever too late for a sequel?
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I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
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I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
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Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
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People who are very upset sometimes say they are “losing their minds.” In technical terms they are experiencing the loss of executive functioning.
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There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.
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In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
