Sandra Bernhard Quotes
At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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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.
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I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
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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.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change.
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Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.
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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.
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Shameless is a show I would watch even if I wasn’t on it, it’s my kind of show.
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One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
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All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
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When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your lungs. When I saw this time I was like, 'Ah, that's not possible.' Yeah...that was a good moment.
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We appreciate Patrick's contributions during his time here with the Washington Redskins. Through this entire process we always wanted what was best for Patrick and in working with him we feel this is where he wants to be. We wish all the best to him and his family and his future with the New York Jets.
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Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.
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At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.
