Sarah Silverman Quotes

I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."

Sarah Silverman

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• How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Believe
  • War

• Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • You

• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • Never
  • Bedroom

• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings

• One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Grief

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • People
  • Know
  • Story

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

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Know
  • Thought

• I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Good
  • Work
  • Care

• I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Professional
  • Lazy

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• 'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Find
  • Depression
  • Silver

• One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Without
  • Consequences

• Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Laughter
  • Face

• I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.

  

  Iman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Years

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Coats

• I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

  

  Davy Rothbart
  • Focus
  • Audience
  • Persons

• The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • People
  • Ignorance
  • Order

• I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Lucky
  • Lows
  • Overhead