Sarah Silverman Quotes
When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I never left doo wop.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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In luxury, ubiquity will kill you - it means you're not really luxury anymore.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.
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When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.
