Crowds Quotes - Page 15

• I get panic attacks in big crowds.

  Liev Schreiber

  Panic Attacks, Panic, Bigs

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• Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

  Will Self

  Madness, Sometimes, Absence

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• Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.

  Will Self

  Comfort, Strange, Madness

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• One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.

  Rob Sheffield

  Uplifting, Liars, Rocks

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• Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

  Rob Sheffield

  Emotional, Guitar, Games

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• Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.

  Gene Simmons

  Pain, Rainy Day, Smell

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• Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Girl, Art, People

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• I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.

  Steven Spielberg

  People, Dozen, Noise

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• The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Party, Hero

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• If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Pain, Pleasure, Humiliation

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. December 15, 2006.

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• I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

  Rod Stewart

  Singing, Hated, Fronts

  "Rod Stewart's Son Asks the Important Questions". Interview with Alastair Stewart, www.redbookmag.com. November 14, 2012.

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• For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

  James Surowiecki

  Smart, Independent, Thinking

  "The Wise Way to Crowdsource a Manhunt". www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Effort, Example

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• We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Goal, Focus

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• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  Ice T

  Party, Rap, Rocks

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• A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

  Ice T

  Rap, Kids, Mastery

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• By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Creating, People

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. March 24, 2009.

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• The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  White, Space, House

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

  Anthony Trollope

  Power, Looks, Digestion

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.570, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

  Desmond Tutu

  Standing Out, Shoulders

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• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  Gabrielle Union

  Race, Hollywood, Hot

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• I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Thinking, Launching

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• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Crush, Falling In Love, Educational

  "V-Va-Va-Voom!" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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• In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Eras, Making Money

  "Interview: Jesse Ventura biography". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'

  Ayelet Waldman

  Thinking, Listening, Despair

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