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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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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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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Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.
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Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
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I have fond memories of Chris Penn, who's sadly not with us. He always made me laugh - it was great to be with him.
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We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
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I have a beautiful, big bathtub.
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Music in Rocky has always been pivotal.
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I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'
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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.
