Sarah Silverman Quotes
I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.
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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
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I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.
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A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
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I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.
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The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.
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When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear... also very suggestive... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.
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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
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I let my drinking do the talking.
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I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.
