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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• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

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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.

  

  Yann Martel
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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.

  

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

  

  Federica Mogherini
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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.

  

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

  

  Taylor Swift
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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.

  

  Yaya Han
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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
  • Want
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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.

  

  Ione Skye
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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.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
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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.

  

  Nate Parker
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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.

  

  Alan Alda
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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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.

  

  Aryn Kyle
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• I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

  

  Kate Moss
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• Outside the seasons passed: sun, snow, spring green, October storms . . . was this a vision of my future? When would the shunning hero come, to set the clock if my life in motion again? Would he come some morning, or in the night? In April or December? This year? Next year? I shuddered. No, I wouldn't just sit and wait. I wanted to go out. Maybe there were new men out there, better men, men who'd just been waiting for me. Somewhere someone is always waiting for someone.

  

  Eva Heller
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  • Hero
  • Motion

• Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Impossible
  • Possible
  • Miracles

• There's a ceiling when it comes to genetics. I'm a huge believer in the mind. I feel like anticipation is a key to the success of the game and I feel that's where I thrive. Being able to anticipate, prepare and live in the details of the game.

  

  Will Compton
  • Game
  • Success
  • Details

• 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