Sandra Bernhard Quotes
I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
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Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.
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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
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Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
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If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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My head-dress was a bugle-band like the border to my gown, and a flower of Mrs Tilson’s. I depended upon hearing something of the evening from Mr. W. K., and am very well satisfied with his notice of me - 'A pleasing looking young woman' - that must do; one cannot pretend to anything better now; thankful to have it continued a few years longer!
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Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.
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I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.
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I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.
