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.

Sandra Bernhard

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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.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Listening

• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Fear
  • Hell
  • Too Much

• 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.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Why
  • Home
  • Sports

• I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Older

• 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.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Myself

• I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Know
  • Secret
  • Keep

• What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Army
  • How
  • Pacifist

• Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Gym

• Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Will
  • Opportunities
  • Without

• 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.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Always
  • Challenge

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• 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?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Country
  • Power
  • Influence

• 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.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Funny

• I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.

  

  Anna Popplewell
  • Fun

• Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?

  

  Val McDermid
  • Government
  • Police
  • Interests

• 'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing. I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.

  

  Chevy Chase

• I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Morning

• It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Night
  • Comedy
  • Waiting