Sarah Silverman Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
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Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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As crazy as it sounds, my generation is very lazy.
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Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.
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I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.
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When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.
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I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.
