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.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Time
  • Job
  • Team

• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Like
  • First
  • Felt

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Today
  • Software

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• 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.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Law
  • Running
  • Doubt

• 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.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • She
  • Father
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Forever

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Important
  • She
  • Know

• Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

  

  Jane Rule
  • Political

• For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • World
  • Education
  • Powerful

• 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.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Dream
  • City

• Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

  

  George Bancroft
  • Truth

• Maybe divisions like that are easy for people to accept, because then you don't have to make an effort to understand people or appreciate each of them. You just give them a general name: "black people" and "white people." "Tall people" and "short people." "Man" and "woman." But we have to forget about all those terms. Every individual is unique in herself or himself.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Black People
  • Divisions
  • White People

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • America
  • Past
  • Month

• For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: “I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them."

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Happiness
  • Regret
  • Sorrows

• 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.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Scary
  • Standing
  • Couches