Sandra Bernhard Quotes

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Sandra Bernhard

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Cooking

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • World
  • Mind
  • Thought

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dumb

• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Become
  • Poison

• A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • War
  • Future

• I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Remember
  • Find
  • Back

• I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Play
  • Like
  • King

• My life was pretty rough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • My Life

• I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Me
  • Silly
  • Bothered

• My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Fun
  • Happy
  • Passion

• But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • Me
  • Person

• When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Trust

• My chief request is that anyone who is a servant of God be ready and willing, to carry this letter forward; may it never be hidden or stolen by anyone, but rather, may it be read aloud before the whole people - Yes, even when Coroticus himself is present.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • God
  • May

• The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Information
  • Crime
  • Available

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• Why does it hurt when you love someone? What is it with the human heart? What was it with my heart? I wondered if there was a way to keep her in this world forever.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • World
  • Love
  • Hurt

• When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • World
  • Feels
  • News