Sarah Silverman Quotes
I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
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We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
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Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.
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Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.
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I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
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I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
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To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
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The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.
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I guess, as a reporter, I always thought that my biggest strength was that I could get anybody to talk to me. I wasn't the best writer, but I could get people to talk to me.
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Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.
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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
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When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
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I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.
