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 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'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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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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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
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In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a 'siege situation' imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.
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I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.
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Our time is a time of great discoveries and firm scientific convictions.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased.
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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.
