Sarah Silverman Quotes

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

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• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

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• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

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• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

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• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  

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• Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

  

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• If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.

  

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• Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

  

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• To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

  

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• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

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• My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

  

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• My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

  

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• I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

  

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• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  

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• Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.

  

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• I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

  

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• I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

  

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• I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

  

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• I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.

  

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• The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

  

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• My advice is: Don't take yourself too seriously, laugh a lot, enjoy your time with family, and appreciate the unique talents of others. Trust in God, love your neighbor, say you're sorry, forgive, and work hard.

  

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• I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

  

  Sarah Silverman
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