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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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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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
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I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
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Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.
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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.
