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.
Quotes to Explore
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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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.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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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.
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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.
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One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
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We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
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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.
