Sandra Bernhard Quotes

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

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• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Love
  • Body
  • Female

• I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Doing

• I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Playing
  • Train
  • Details

• I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fashion
  • Tennis
  • Seeing

• There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Money
  • Charity

• There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Great
  • Write
  • Difficult

• This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Cold
  • Changes

• Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Different
  • Talking
  • Issues

• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• Shameless is a show I would watch even if I wasn’t on it, it’s my kind of show.

  

  Vanessa Bell Calloway
  • Kind
  • Watches
  • Shameless

• One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Respect

• This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Country
  • Home

• Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dying

• I've been blessed with good eyebrows, and I've worked very hard for them. Get a good brow pencil, fill them in a bit, make them perfect, and I guarantee you'll feel better. At least it works for me.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Blessed

• One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Interest
  • Queens

• There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

  

  H. G. Wells

• All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Single
  • Beach

• Healing is a process afforded you by your Creator and is above and beyond the control of man. Your Chiropractor does everything possible to help Innate heal-but he cannot heal nor can anyone else produce healing for you. When the right adjustment is made, Innate goes to work. You feel the results when dis-ease turns to ease.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Work
  • Help
  • Control

• The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • She
  • Inspired

• Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Christian

• All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Views

• Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

  

  Jonathan Shapiro
  • Laws
  • Views
  • Compromise

• There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.

  

  Cholly Atkins
  • Artist
  • Training
  • Concerned

• At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Views
  • Concerned
  • Cynical