Shut Up Quotes - Page 20

• There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Children, Distance

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey in O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.

  Mickey Rourke

  Actors, Months, Cosy

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• When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That's the message: "Shut up. Don't write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?"

  Roger Ebert

  Get Well, Writing, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Mean, Play

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• (World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Taken, History

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• Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

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• I'm most biased about how white people have to learn to shut up when the conversation of racism comes up. White people have to learn to listen. Whether they agree with what they're hearing or not, they have to know to shut up and listen.

  W. Kamau Bell

  White, Racism, People

  Source: collider.com

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• People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Husband, Winning

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• The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling.

  James Purdy

  New York, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Ends

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• Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Opportunity, Missing

  "No Screen Hog: Reese Witherspoon Plays Producer For ‘Penelope’". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Ideas, Ordinary

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• Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Want, Poet

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• These are two different exercises. One of them is, "You don't know and I know, so just shut up and listen," and the other one is, you're curious and you're learning, and I have a way where you can learn this so you'll know it as well. And when you know it, and know why you know it, then you don't have to reference me ever again because you take ownership of the knowledge, and you can then share it with someone else.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Exercise, Different, Curious

  Source: www.complex.com

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• People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.

  Debra Winger

  People, Should, Lots Of Money

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• Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

  James Wolcott

  Talking, Way

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• But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

  Wyndham Lewis

  Eye, Silence, Mind

  Wyndham Lewis (1979). “Wyndham Lewis, Collected Poems and Plays”, New York : Persea Books

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• Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sea, House, Video

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.115, Penguin

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• Stephen King told me a long time ago, when he gave me some advice about the movies. He said to take the money up front and expect it to be something different than the book and if you don't like that don't deal with Hollywood. But if you take the money, shut up and don't criticize the film because you sold it. The movie doesn't change a word of the book.

  John Grisham

  Book, Long, Advice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Shut up... or I'll kill you.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  "Naruto". Manga series by Masashi Kishimoto, September 21, 1999 – November 10, 2014.

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• Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

  Tom Robbins

  Growing Up, Nice, Mean

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.254, Bantam

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• There are trade-offs in everything we do in life, and I have accepted that if I would like to be principled - and just principled - my best call would be to sit at home and shut up, because nothing I preached would be connectable to the practice.

  Moddi

  Home, Accepted

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If Islam is so peaceful, why is everybody so damn frightened of offending them? And on the other hand, if Christianity is so violent as people like Whoopi Goldberg and others tell us, why is nobody afraid to offend Christians? People laugh at, make fun of, and mock Christians all day long with no fear whatsoever. But you so much as think anything offensive about Islam, and they descend on you and they accuse you of violating political correctness and they beg you to shut up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Christian, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Shut up,' he explained.

  Ring Lardner

  The Young Immigrants ch. 10 (1920)

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• She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." "Some fun!" Bobby Lee said. "Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fun, Real, Good Woman

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The complete stories”

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