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

• I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • People
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  • Ancestors

• The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Party
  • Values

• 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

• I just did a lot of push-ups and sit-ups and did a lot of praying and stuff. God basically got me through all that stuff. It was scary and I wish it upon no one. It's basically like being locked in a cage for three months without anybody trying to give you any love.

  

  Wes Scantlin Puddle of Mudd
  • God
  • Scary
  • Stuff

• It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• I have to be seen to be believed.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Believed
  • Seen

• The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

  

  Bjork
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• When you're in a band, you spend most of your time in a van. Like, there were four of us, we toured all the time, and you're stuck looking at three other people for a month straight. And all of those times, we all just liked making fun of people, doing impressions of people, coming up with songs.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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