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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Idling is not my strong suit.
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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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One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
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I love rap.
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When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.
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Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.
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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.
