Sandra Bernhard Quotes

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

Sandra Bernhard

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• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Women
  • Business
  • Man

• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Working
  • Honest
  • Computers

• 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Happy
  • Man

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Truth Is

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Training

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Different
  • Dance
  • Audience

• My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Yoga
  • Meditation
  • Cardio

• In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Room

• When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Should
  • Simplicity

• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Born

• I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Think

• Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

  

  Enrico Fermi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Knowledge
  • Simple
  • Focus

• I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover.

  

  Uday Hussein
  • God
  • Body
  • Doctors

• 'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Song
  • Free Fallin

• Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically get to reflect different ideas. But it doesn't mean that it's not a painful process. There are some really late nights.

  

  Noma Bar
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Illustrate

• When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Knowledge
  • Soothing
  • Continuity