Sandra Bernhard Quotes
I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
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If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
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People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.
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People who live in glasshouses might as well answer the door
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I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
