Sandra Bernhard Quotes

Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.

Sandra Bernhard

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• Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Parents

• We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Write

• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Gift
  • Whom

• Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Sometimes
  • Win
  • Fight

• No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • Man
  • Action

• It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.

  

  George Andrew Olah
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • Period

• Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • World
  • Wise
  • Gentleman

• The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Great
  • Age
  • Promise

• Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Art
  • Past

• Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Play

• I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.

  

  Bakari Kitwana
  • Hate
  • Self
  • Hip Hop

• Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

  

  Rachel Holmes
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• I had a dream once. I wanted to do a line of cocaine off a hooker's ass. That's when I realized, 'Hey, I'm freakin' Zach Braff.' I did it the next morning.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Dream
  • Morning

• Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Fall
  • Stories

• I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Understand
  • Americans
  • Natural World

• The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Darkness
  • Awakening
  • Makers

• Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Stories
  • Sides
  • Refuse