Quiet Quotes - Page 9

• We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.

  Nina Turner

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Now I'm more behaved, I think it's age, you get older, more responsible, more quiet. But if I would want to dye my hair, for example red or blue, be sure that I'll dye it!

  Neymar

  Thinking, Hair, Blue

  Source: fzneymar.tumblr.com

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• I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Differences, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.

  Kate Thornton

  Lonely, Fall, Insecure

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.

  Felicity Jones

  Self, Interesting, Inner Strength

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Lying, Believe

  Source: progressive.org

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• In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights of women, students, young people, old people, farmers and workers. What are called "special interests" - meaning the whole population - they began to press to enter the public arena. And they said that puts too much pressure on the state and therefore we have to have more moderation in democracy and they should go back and be quiet and obedient.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, People, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

  Desmond Tutu

  Deep Love, Fire, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights." No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!

  Desmond Tutu

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  Source: sojo.net

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• I do 45 minutes a day of stretching and abdominals and I lift light weights of half a kilo. Otherwise, if you strain your muscles, then you have to be quiet and stay without any exercise for a long time. I do heavier weights gradually. I'm going to become Superwoman with oil on my muscles!

  Sophia Loren

  Exercise, Oil, Light

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the whole deal, and then I can be really big later. I had no problem.

  Terry Crews

  Home, Character, Artist

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I think that one of the challenges for a parent and myself as a parent is that we live in a very electronic media age. That's obvious to everyone. And I'm not opposed to time on computers or time with television or time with any other electronic media but I think that quiet, thoughtful interaction between one's self, your mind and words is an irreplacable thing.

  Josh Prince

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Self

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• We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.

  David LaChapelle

  Voice, Connections, Praying

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• The West and its media have barely covered the recent wave of repression in Turkey. The reason is simple. They are paying billions to Ankara to control and take back the refugees of the Syrian war. They are fearful that if they offend Tayyip Erdogan he will use the refugees as a political weapon. So they keep quiet.

  Tariq Ali

  War, Simple, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The only thing that dictates whether I respond to someone is whether I have something interesting to say in return. I respond to people I don't know at all, when their tweet hauls a nice fresh bucket of water up out of me, but if it comes up empty then I just stay quiet.

  Patricia Lockwood

  Nice, People, Water

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously successful businesses of very quiet, very calculated, calm executors who are confident. You can't be successful without being confident. They believe in themselves. They have their own version of assertiveness ... I think confidence matters and I think other things matter, like I would tell you empathy is probably why I'm more successful than confidence. I'm empathic to the customer, to my business partners, to my employees.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Believe, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I am surprised by the word psychedelic. João Gilberto Noll does not accept realism in a straightforward way, but I am more inclined to call Quiet Creature a realist text than I am to call it a psychedelic one. The transcendent aspect of the psychedelic experience is totally absent.

  Adam Morris

  Psychedelic, Realist, Accepting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Dreamlike sequencing is perhaps one of João Gilberto Noll's most remarkable triumphs in Quiet Creature on the Corner. I translated the novel and still it remains a mystery as to how exactly how this works. Noll thinks more like an experimental filmmaker than a novelist.

  Adam Morris

  Thinking, Mystery, Remarkable

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Brazilian national identity is not one of João Gilberto Noll primary concerns. This does not mean social critique is absent: race, gender, and class relations are considered in Quiet Creature. And these are universal relational matters, not necessarily particular to any country. Some critics have commented that understanding the specific Brazilian political context of the novel is helpful for reading Quiet Creature. This may be true, but it's not prerequisite for understanding it.

  Adam Morris

  Country, Reading, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We are a people that let the small things just go by because it's a little uncomfortable and nobody wants to ruffle a feather. If you're quiet and you're watching it, you're just as much at fault as the person there. You're watching a victim be berated and you're standing by, knowing that feeling in your gut that it's wrong. Now you have a tool in order to change that.

  Don Iveson

  People, Feelings, Victim

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When I'm away from a red carpet, I'm a big introvert, I'm very quiet, and I like to sit in silence at home with my cat, Nino, who is my whole world, or most of it.

  Kate McKinnon

  Cat, Home, Silence

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Keeping quiet and letting the others do the talking. That may be Angela Merkel's method, but it's not mine.

  Martin Schulz

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think any administration, when they come in, thinks that their job is to tell the scientists what the science looks like or to be quiet about the science. Scientists need to remain true and not allow science to be politicized. Scientists are not politicians, and no politician should consider themselves to be a scientist.

  Gina McCarthy

  Thinking, Politician, Scientist

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The reality is that most of us are rarely, if ever, alone with our own minds and souls. Even when we do find a few minutes of quiet, we're driven to check our devices for emails, texts, etc.

  Tricia Rhodes

  Reality, Soul, Mind

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• We as the band are geriatric, and I've got one foot in the grave. But when I start to think about it in the quiet of the night, I'm filled with energy and I think that time does not proceed chronologically for us after all. Instead, we are bend back towards eternal youth and immortality.

  Jussi Lehtisalo

  Night, Thinking, Energy

  Source: thequietus.com

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