Shut Up Quotes - Page 18

• Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Skills, Offering

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• If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Country, Party, Gun

  "Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Voice, People, Silence

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• You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

  Ana Gasteyer

  People, Able, Evita

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• You all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I'm talking!

  The Miz

  Talking, Wwe, Ducks

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• If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

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• You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

  Bill Richardson

  Two, Two Things

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• When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

  Prince William

  Running, Hands, Parent

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• Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!

  Milton H. Erickson

  Silence, Chairs, Trance

  Milton H. Erickson, Ronald A. Havens (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy”, p.10, Ardent Media

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• Well, The Rock says this, you should be concerned with fixing yourself a nice, tall glass of shut-up juice!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Nice, Glasses, Rocks

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• Why don't you make a contibution to my sanity, and do the one thing you never seem to be able to do... SHUT UP!!!

  Triple H

  Wwe, Able, Sanity

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• Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car?" Borden asked. We'd look a lot more suspicious if we were all three making out in the car," Jazz said. "What?" she added, when Borden turned and gave her a wide-eyed look. You have no idea what kind of happy place you just took me to." Shut up.

  Rachel Caine

  Ideas, Car, Three

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Devil's Due”, p.132, Harlequin

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• I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

  Harvey Milk

  Involved

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• In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

  Matthew Perry

  Ego, Theatre, Way

  "Back from the brink: Fame almost destroyed Friends star Matthew Perry. Now, as he makes his West End stage debut, he tells Neil Norman how he beat his addictions". Neil Norman, Evening Standart, May 1, 2003.

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• That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Storm, Calling, Helping

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• [Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.

  Janet Malcolm

  Hypocrisy, Done, Benefits

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• A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.

  Rachel Vincent

  Smart, Hell, Overrated

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.177, MIRA

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• I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up.

  Sean Paul

  Singers, Remember, Type

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• I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

  Patrick Swayze

  Angel, Trying, Speak

  "‘The View’ pays tribute to Patrick Swayze", www.today.com. September 15, 2009.

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• Everyone has a story if you just listen and shut up.

  Dean Baquet

  Just Listen

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• When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.

  Shirley Bassey

  Singing

  "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.

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• I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.

  Sitting Bull

  Children, Games, Hunters

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 206), 1993.

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• I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

  Desmond Tutu

  Wish, I Can

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• There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

  Chris Crutcher

  One Thing

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• If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Delight, Should

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