Sandra Bernhard Quotes

I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.

Sandra Bernhard

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• I have to be myself.

  

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• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  

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• The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.

  

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• A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

  

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• I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

  

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• I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

  

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• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

  

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• The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.

  

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• The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

  

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• I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

  

  Ted Nelson
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• 'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

  

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• We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

  

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• Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

  

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• I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

  

  Ehud Olmert
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• I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
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• Even though Kate had only known Hale for a little more than two years, she had seen him in a lot of situations.

  

  Ally Carter
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• You try to make them comfortable so they can do what they're best at, and make them shine. You always want to make an actor shine. I'm of the mind that there's no one - you, your mother, anyone, that if in the right place at the right time in the right context, couldn't shine in a movie. And so if it means, "Oh, I have to make them uncomfortable," then whatever it takes to get what I need up onscreen. It's all in the service of the story.

  

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• Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • World
  • Want
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• I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Uncomfortable
  • Situations
  • Provocateur