Sarah Silverman Quotes

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

Sarah Silverman

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  Samuel L. Jackson
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• Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.

  

  Warren Spector
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• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

  

  E. G. Marshall
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• It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
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• I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

  

  Sam Altman
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• I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

  

  Hannah Simone
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  • Great
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• I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound; And thus it is that what I feel, Here in this room, desiring you, Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, Is music.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
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  • Feeling

• Anytime I stepped out on the red carpet in anything pink, I don't know what I was thinking.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Thinking
  • Red
  • Pink

• I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.

  

  Dean Kamen
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• You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

  

  Kerry Washington
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• Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wants or she wants. Humans need to be shrunk again to their actual size.

  

  Christoph Waltz
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• It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Funny

• The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

  

  Donald Pleasence
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• Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • People
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• I signed this measure with a deep sense of pride that the United States is an open society in which the people's right to know is cherished and guarded.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
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  • Deep

• Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
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• Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

  

  Diane Ackerman
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• I ate the sandwich.

  

  Frank McCourt

• One of my favorite moments was when I stepped onstage for my first Victoria's Secret show in 2010, It felt like all that work finally paid off. I had long legs that I worked hard all year to keep, and it felt great being able to show them off.

  

  Lais Ribeiro
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Feels
  • Audience