Sarah Silverman Quotes

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!

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• After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Children
  • Yourself

• Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Past
  • Door
  • Angry

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Young
  • First

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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  • New
  • Some

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
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• I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Good
  • Picture

• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Team

• I am much more interested in the process than results.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Process
  • Results
  • Interested

• With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Hope
  • Own
  • Pictures

• I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Information

• Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Job
  • Want
  • Know

• Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

  

  Ice Cube
  • School
  • Want
  • Play

• I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

  

  Francesco Carrozzini
  • Always
  • Film
  • Photography

• Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Feeling
  • Silent
  • Seeing

• A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

  

  John C. Wright
  • Truth
  • Patience

• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
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  • Know

• On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

  

  Mary Stuart Masterson
  • People
  • She
  • Running

• Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Man
  • Challenge

• People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!

  

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