Sandra Bernhard Quotes

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

Sandra Bernhard

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Sure

• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Only
  • Saints
  • Acceptable

• Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Mean
  • Galaxy
  • Phones

• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Woman
  • Right
  • Gun

• Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Up
  • School
  • Knowledge

• I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Teachers
  • Substitute
  • Authorized

• I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Blessed
  • Opportunities
  • Been

• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Successful
  • Look

• Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Business
  • Career
  • Me

• There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Football
  • Head
  • Medical

• I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.

  

  John Madden
  • Up
  • Sports

• The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.

  

  Joan Fontaine
  • Men
  • Important
  • Dog

• I have good skin, but it's dry - drier than you would think, considering I have Latin skin. It's fairly transparent, too, so I'm constantly trying to give it nourishment and moisture, but nothing really holds.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Latin

• If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Home
  • Gun
  • Thug

• That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • People
  • Dream
  • Integrity