Sandra Bernhard Quotes
That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
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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.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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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.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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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.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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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.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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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.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
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There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
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I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
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I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
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He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
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The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.
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That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
