Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
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When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.
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There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.
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The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
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There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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There was a period in my life when I was eating ramen non-stop. These days, less so. Once you have a kid, you end up eating a lot of foods with broccoli in them.
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As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
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Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.
