Sarah Silverman Quotes

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

Sarah Silverman

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• Listening
• Honesty
• Idiot

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• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Golf

• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Friends

• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Question

• I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • King

• I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Kids

• If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Honesty

• If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Thinking
  • Food
  • Amazing

• I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Learned

• It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Honesty

• Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Single

• I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Rock
  • Listening
  • Boy

• Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I really feel so good - anytime after the first mile. You start fantasying. You start thinking about things.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Why

• With words woven into almost every detail of his life, it seems amazing that Mr. Mets' thinking on the subject of language should be so limited.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Words

• I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time.

  

  Chester Burnett
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Song

• We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

  

  Enrique Iglesias
  • World
  • Together

• I'm sure Vanilla Ice is a nice guy.

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Guy
  • Vanilla Ice

• The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Fall
  • Habit
  • Satisfied

• I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Listening
  • Honesty