Sandra Bernhard Quotes
On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.