Sarah Silverman Quotes
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Quotes to Explore
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I was born with an evil face.
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I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
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We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
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Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?
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With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.
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I always like to vent and tell the truth in my music.
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Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.
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It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
