Shut Up Quotes

• If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

  Bill Cosby

  Want, Speak, Appreciated

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Hilarious, Mom

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• Never miss a chance to shut up

  Will Rogers

  Missing, Chance

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• My best advice to you: Shut up.

  Jim Calhoun

  Advice, Best Advice

  "Teams We Hate" by Josh Levin, www.slate.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Want, Way

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• If you can't keep quiet, shut up!

  Gregory Ratoff

  Quiet, Ifs

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• Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

  Ogden Nash

  Inspirational, Life, Marriage

  Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

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• I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

  Andy Warhol

  Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2015). “POPism: The Warhol Sixties”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

  Kieran Culkin

  Eye, Ears

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• It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

  Alex Trebek

  Inspirational, Silence, Important

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• I never miss a good chance to shut up

  James Patterson

  Cowboy, Silence, Missing

  James Patterson (2017). “Along Came a Spider: (Alex Cross 1)”, p.237, Random House

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• Sometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway

  Nick Carter

  Interesting, Causes, Sometimes

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• Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.

  Ann B. Davis

  I Hate You, Bad Ass, Negative

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• Indeed, at times it's best to shut up.

  Phillip Lopate

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There is about to be a big cowboy boot in your ass if you dont shut up.

  Jim Ross

  Cowboy, Wwe, Boots

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• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  Sakya Pandita

  Change, Happiness, Mean

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• Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

  Blaize Clement

  Truth, People, Way

  Blaize Clement (2009). “Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.141, Macmillan

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• You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

  Marat Safin

  Play, Ifs

  "Marat Safin crashes out of Shanghai with swipe at Berdych and Roddick" by Tomas Berdych, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2009.

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• Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.

  Cara Delevingne

  Kids, Media, Bully

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

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• Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

  Dave Hickey

  Gossip, Complaining, Apologizing

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.

  Ogden Nash

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• One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.

  Austin Grossman

  Moving, Dust, Cities

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

  Renee Zellweger

  Movie Love, Hello, Worst Movie

  "Fictional character: Dorothy Boyd". "Jerry Maguire", 1996.

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• If you don't shut up, how can I answer your questions!

  Lucero Isaac

  Answers, Questioning, Ifs

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