Crowds Quotes - Page 4

• Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lonely, Jobs, Interesting

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• I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

  James Young

  Thinking, Audience, Knows

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• Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Stars, Dark, Heaven

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• I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Art, Wish, Passionate

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• When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, sites.fas.harvard.edu. December 4, 2000.

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• I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.

  Julie Walters

  Lonely, Groups, Being Lonely

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• Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Running, Helping, Wrong Crowd

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• I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.

  Josh Holloway

  Mean, Mind, Buzz

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• The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Ladders

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• Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Style, Looks, Literature

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• There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

  Eugenio Montale

  Country, Squares, Regimes

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• Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

  Nigel Mansell

  Sports, Home, Athlete

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• I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

  Bea Arthur

  Baseball, Lovely, Fields

  TV Legends, August 6, 2005.

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• Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

  James Shirley

  Men, Common, Common Man

  James Shirley, William Gifford, Alexander Dyce (1833). “Honoria and Mammon. Chabot, admiral of France. The Arcadia. The triumph of peace. A contention for honour and riches. The triumph of beauty. Cupid and death. The contention of Ajax and Ulysses for armour of Achilles. Poems”, p.355

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• If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

  Jean Cocteau

  Crucifixion Of Christ, Crucifixion, Ifs

  Le Coq et l'Arlequin (1918) in Le Rappel ... l'ordre (Recall to Order, 1926) p. 39

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• I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

  Will Self

  Psychology, Common, Anarchist

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• What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.

  Verne Troyer

  People, Laughing, Likes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

  Levon Helm

  Important, Groups

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, Doctors, People

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• With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Your Side, Play

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• Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Body, Responsible

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.49

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• Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

  Mary Astell

  Mind, Delight, Body

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• I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Cheer, Hate, Kicking

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Land, Attention

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• There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Marijuana, Smoking, Scene

  "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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