Sarah Silverman Quotes
Anything television trivia I'm good at. But when you're on your couch, you're really good at it, but when you're standing there, it's probably scary.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
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Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.
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Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.
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I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.
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Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.
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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career.
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Anything television trivia I'm good at. But when you're on your couch, you're really good at it, but when you're standing there, it's probably scary.
