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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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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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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In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
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Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.
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Long, creative relationships are unusual in rock'n'roll, but the mileage and the knowledge and the understanding from having been around with [Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois] for 20 years makes them a pleasure to work with.
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Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus is the greatest friend of the earth-Jesus who again and again, in the original spirit of Judaism, proclaimed love for the soil and love for the land. "Blessed are the peacemakers," he said, "for they shall possess the earth."
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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.
