Sarah Silverman Quotes
I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
Mandy Bujold -
But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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Facts don't care about your feelings.
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
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I've learned that no matter what shape you get your body into, if you don't get your head right, you're not going to feel good about yourself.
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Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
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Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.
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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
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I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.
