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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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 do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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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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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.
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I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'
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Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
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I've basically got an album full of singles.
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It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
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I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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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.
