Sandra Bernhard Quotes
You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I can't act without music very well.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.
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I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
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I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.
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You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
