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I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change. ↗

— Ron Silver

#change #i #i think #nothing #obligation

If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains. ↗

— Ron Silver

#get #i #kids #pains #see

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive. ↗

— Ron Silver

#attractive #day #every #every day #go

Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks. ↗

— Ron Silver

#attacks #concessions #east #face #forced

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#anything #avoid #i #offend #out

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#emotion #harmless #meaning #meaning of #only

And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#back #before #change #cut #dad

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#enough #fun #funny #i #i think

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#featured #graduated #i #live #night

I just think of myself as a comedian, really. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#i #just #myself #really #think