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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• 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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Small
  • Never

• But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • Time
  • City
  • Space

• In Germany I am not so famous.

  

  Hans Berger
  • Famous
  • Germany

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Years
  • Sex

• I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Tragedy

• 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.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Me

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • You
  • Insults

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• 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.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Find

• There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • People
  • World
  • Two

• You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • You
  • Fashion

• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Works
  • Move
  • Surrender

• It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • Light
  • Sun

• 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.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Music
  • Selfish

• On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.

  

  Gennifer Flowers
  • Together
  • Relationship

• I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • People
  • Work

• I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over.

  

  Steve Martin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Running

• I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Principle

• The New York world is definitely geared toward fashion. So many people work in the fashion industry, photography, all sorts of satellite businesses that have to do with it, so there's no way that it can't affect you, and it just kind of makes you think with more of a fashion edge.

  

  Chris March
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Spirit