Shut Up Quotes - Page 17

• When I sing, people shut up.

  Barbra Streisand

  People, Explanation

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

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• There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song: Outta Me, Onto You, Album: Dilate

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• You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

  Isla Fisher

  Motherhood, Want, Topics

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• I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

  Amber Heard

  Thinking, Pills, Amber

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• Global warming people ignore nature; they ignore water vapor; they ignore sunspot cycles and sun activity. It's typical liberal guilt and politics wanting to blame western societies and lifestyles for causing all these problems because it leads to government and United Nations solutions, and that's where liberals like power vested. And of course when people come along and don't agree, they gotta be shut up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Water, People, Guilt

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. I’ve still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that they’d finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.

  Lennox Lewis

  School, Long, Guy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in terms of how I related to life. At some point, my rational mind started creeping in, and it would not shut up. I finally had to address it and confront it. I think most intelligent people, at a younger age than I have, begin to question some of the fundamental assumptions our society promotes. But me, I just rejected it without even considering it.

  Jeff Mangum

  Intelligent, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.

  E. M. Forster

  Air, Expression, Names

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• I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

  Scott Ritter

  Believe, Needs, Empowered

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• A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Lawyer, Cases, Know How

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• For years Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they tried to challenge the immorality pervasive in today's society. When they tell people casual sex is wrong, they get the inevitable, "You got no right to tell me what I can or can't do. You don't get to define morality for me. It's none of your business what I do. Shut up." If they oppose sexual immorality in any form including adultery, they are maligned as sanctimonious Puritans who have not gotten with it in the twenty-first century. It's a long piece; it's well thought out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Long, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

  Dorothy Gambrell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• Earlier in my career I just thought "I'm not very confident, I don't like singing to people." But people had some faith in me, and here we are. Sometimes I think "Oh maybe I should just be a backing singer." But I've got an amazing team of people who tell me to shut up when I'm like "Oh god, I can't do it." But now, I can't really imagine it being the other way.

  Jessie Ware

  Team, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You know, when you engage so much with somebody it seems like the subjects never end. You can actually talk forever, and I felt like that with my wife. And at some point we shut up and got married.

  Mauro Remiddi

  Wife, Forever, Married

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world to my reader. I'm not writing a history text on the Four Corners. I'm telling a story that's set there. The setting belongs in the background for the most part, and it's easy for fantasy authors to forget that. That's one of the unfortunate parts of Tolkien's legacy, in my opinion. Read the first hundred pages of the Fellowship of the Ring and you start to get pissed, "Shut up about the Shire's museums! Isn't the world supposed to be in peril or something?"

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Jobs, Writing, Museums

  Source: aidanmoher.com

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• I think politicians in America don't speak up because their local lobbyist has them shut up.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, America, Lobbyists

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door very happy. Hope your diodes rot. Thank you. Have a nice day. Stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. It is my pleasure to open for you... Zark off. ...and my satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done. I said zark off. Thank you for listening to this message.

  Douglas Adams

  Jobs, Nice, Simple

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.333, Pan Macmillan

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• My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Light, Opposites

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

  Jo Brand

  Hard Work, Too Much, Slapping

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• Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.

  John Galsworthy

  Art, Real, Men

  John Galsworthy (2008). “The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.338, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'

  J. Cole

  Men, Cities, Doe

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• It's funny to see my friends going through that middle-age thing about losing their hair. I went through it in college. They all say, "Oh my God, I'm getting old. I'm never getting laid again." Shut up. Yes, you are.

  Kenny Chesney

  College, Hair, Age

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• Think about this - some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their duty. And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless - unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Fighting, Thinking, Vietnam

  "Made a Mistake". "Talking Points Memo" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 3, 2003.

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• Right now, your destiny is to shut up!

  Theodore Long

  Destiny, Wwe, Right Now

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• Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Average, Order

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 77), March 6, 1995.

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