Crowds Quotes - Page 5

• Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

  Andy Gibb

  Song, Redneck, Guitar

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• I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd

  Johnny Giles

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

  Joe Cocker

  People, Feelings, Elements

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

  Howard Keel

  Careers, Albums, Firsts

  "Howard Keel" by Sheila Whitaker, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2004.

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• But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

  Shia LaBeouf

  People, Acting, Adults

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• I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.

  Torrie Wilson

  Giving, Nervous, Intimidating

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• The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Joy, Leader, Support

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• As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

  Lance Morrow

  Sweet, Home, Welcome

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• And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

  Edward Carpenter

  Men, Firsts, Serious

  "My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes".

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• I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

  Matt Damon

  People, Risk, Events

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

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• I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.

  Chris Matthews

  Fun, Play, People

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• The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Evening, Loud

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• The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

  Ivor Novello

  May

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• Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

  Annie Besant

  Strong, Passion, Class

  Annie Wood Besant (1910). “The Changing World: And Lectures to Theosophical Students; Fifteen Lectures Delivered in London During May, June, and July 1909”

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• Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

  Paul Brunton

  Strength, Being Alone, Men

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• I was never part of the crowd.

  Jimmy Connors

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• Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Spiritual, Eye

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• Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

  Elvis Presley

  Differences, Bigger

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• Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

  Alcuin

  Voice, People, Vox Populi

  Letter 164 in 'Works' (1863) vol. 1, p. 438

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• In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

  Richard G. Scott

  Wise, Thinking, Quiet Moments

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• Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Needs, Youth, Friend In Need

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• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Nice, Often Is

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122

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• I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

  Trish Stratus

  Friends, Taken, Wrestling

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• Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Winning, College

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

  Mose Allison

  Years

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

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