Sandra Bernhard Quotes
A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
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Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.
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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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If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
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Lena Dunham texts me every morning the minute she wakes up to make sure I'm alive.
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If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
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I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
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We have something called naked Sundays ... You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up ... We don't need to go anywhere, we're just with each other. We do everything naked. We cook naked.
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Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive
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Did he just say--?" "Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did." "Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.
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Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.
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We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.
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I can't tell you anything that is going to make you feel like we are going to turn it around. All I can say is we are still alive and we still have a chance. And that is worth fighting for.
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I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.
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It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
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I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.
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There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.
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She herself had certainly never been more alive. She felt electric. She would not have been surprised if sparks had come crackling out of the tips of her sober gloves.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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If money can't buy you happiness then you probably aren't making enough.
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A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.
