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

  

  Federica Mogherini
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  • America
  • Risk

• 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
  • People
  • Society
  • Free

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

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Singing
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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
  • People
  • 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
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

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

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • You
  • Gone

• 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
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• 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
  • World
  • Done
  • Today

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

  

  Ted Nelson
  • New
  • Media
  • Very

• '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
  • Change
  • Dog
  • Advice

• 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
  • Men
  • Fighting
  • Suffering

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Thing
  • Guilt

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Value
  • Importance
  • Dignity

• People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• "Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Done
  • May

• I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.

  

  Gerry Schwartz
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Change

• I'm working with wind, solar, and biofuels companies as well as with organizations like ACORE [American Council On Renewable Energy], Growth Energy, and AREDAY to raise public awareness and seek practical technological solutions to reduce our reliance on fossilized carbon. My book Don't Wait for the Next War will be out in October, where I will offer my prescription for America's growth, responsible development, and security.

  

  Wesley K. Wark
  • Energy
  • Waiting
  • Organization

• We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • School
  • Sex
  • Dumb

• 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