Sarah Silverman Quotes
I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
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I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it's out.
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I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
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A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.
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I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.
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The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
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With the national team, we have these fans, people love of us, people come up to us in our cities, and they're like, 'We love you - what are you doing in Seattle?' And I'm like, 'I live here, and I've played here for the last five years.'
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My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
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I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.
