Sandra Bernhard Quotes

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

Sandra Bernhard

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• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Father
  • Sweet

• I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Act
  • Give
  • Pay

• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Children
  • Bear

• I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Busy

• Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Immigrants

• When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Different
  • Team
  • Rest

• No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Air
  • Matter
  • Rich

• I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Work
  • House
  • Alone

• Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Support
  • Trump
  • Will

• All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Try

• After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Father
  • Couple
  • California

• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Hope
  • Education

• Human beings have always been mythmakers.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Always
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Think
  • Stock
  • Retirement

• The various segments of the system of profound knowledge proposed here cannot be separated. They interact with each other. Thus, knowledge of psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Knowledge
  • Profound
  • Psychology

• Therein lay the secret to all fads: the herd instinct. People wanted to look like everybody else. That was why they bought white bucks and pedal pushers and bikinis. But someone had to be the first one to wear platform shoes, to bob their hair, and that took the opposite of herd instinct.

  

  Connie Willis
  • People
  • Why
  • Hair

• There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • School
  • Words

• Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Color

• You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • People
  • World
  • Culture

• Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.

  

  Amy Hill
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Drama

• The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.

  

  Eugene Green
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Culture
  • Offending