Large Crowds Quotes

• 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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• Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.

  Chinua Achebe

  Should Have, Numbers, Stressed

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• The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.

  Garry Winogrand

  Museums, Hype, Evil

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive at much more intimate moments with them.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Light, Intimate Moments, Cameras

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

  George Jean Nathan

  New York, Sky, Crowds

  George Jean Nathan (1927). “The New American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind”

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• Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Apology, Liberty, Small Gestures

  Benjamin Franklin, Carl Japikse (2003). “Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School”, p.128, Frog Books

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• Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

  Rashida Jones

  Secret, Crowds, Fantasy

  "20Q: Rashida Jones". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.

  David Lynch

  Rolling, Crowds, Murder

  GreenCine interview, November 16, 2005.

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• Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.

  George Wein

  Drawing, Creating, Impact

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• Oh, I get pretty fired up on the court. I try to play with a lot of emotion, especially when I'm playing in front of a large crowd. I want to go out and do my best, and to do that, I have to play with the most energy possible.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Play, Trying, Energy

  "Lleyton Hewitt: Top Spin Intreview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 20, 2003.

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• The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense.

  Thomas Streicher

  Common Sense, Funeral, Police

  " 'Crucial day' begins in Cincinnati", www.cnn.com. April 14, 2001.

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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, Crowds, Nervous

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• We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant ‘He who spoke truth like an oracle’. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The world’s most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician.

  Daniel Tammet

  Philosophical, Names, Ideas

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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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• I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

  Albert Camus

  Hate, Wish, Crowds

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

  Kim Kardashian

  Dancing, Shy, Crowds

  "Kardashian fame and fragrance". Interview With Trish Crawford, www.thestar.com. April 28, 2010.

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• If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.

  Al Franken

  Unique, Faces, Digital

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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