Sandra Bernhard Quotes
It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. … those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
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I am greatly honoured to become Patron of The Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre. I have benefited hugely from their work, and I am looking forward to supporting them in giving a chance to others to benefit from their experience and teaching.
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Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.
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I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.
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It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
