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'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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It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
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I've been very fortunate, but it also never occurred to me that I couldn't do something or that I couldn't ask if I could try something.
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I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.
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We have to acknowledge that those past human right abuses existed and so we can't go forward without looking back, and understanding that was enormous problem, not just for America but also problem for the Indonesian people...
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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.
