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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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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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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We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.
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I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.
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Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
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I have sought, but I seek it vainly,That one lost chord divine,Which came from the soul of the Organ,And entered into mine. It may be that Death's bright angelWill speak in that chord again,It may be that only in HeavenI shall hear that grand Amen.
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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.
