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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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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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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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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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 don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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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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Safety should be a birthright.
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With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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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.
