Sandra Bernhard Quotes
I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.
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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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When you give a man a dole, you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him of his destiny.
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Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.
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I don't know people who don't say 'boy, the government is working better now.'
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All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.
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We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.
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My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.
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Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
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It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.
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Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.
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For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.
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Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.
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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.
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Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.
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One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.
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The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
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Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
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Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.
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I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.
