Sandra Bernhard Quotes

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.

Sandra Bernhard

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• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hope

• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Life
  • Funny
  • My Life

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Film
  • Learn
  • Possible

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Pretty
  • Explore
  • Loved

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Teach
  • Go
  • University

• I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Government
  • Economics

• When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Everything

• I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Courage
  • Sick
  • Nobody

• I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Dad
  • Born
  • Grass

• A lot of people don't love their bank.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Lot
  • Bank

• The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Sun
  • Flower
  • Most

• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Everything
  • Letters
  • Ever

• I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Family
  • Love
  • Hope

• We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • World
  • Women
  • Dream

• Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Cutting

• High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • School
  • Experience
  • American

• If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • World
  • Home
  • Chaos