Silent Quotes - Page 8

• Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Race, White, Majority

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• Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

  William A. Clark

  Marriage, Men, Before Marriage

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• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

  Jacques Attali

  Men, Twenties, Essentials

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.3, Manchester University Press

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• I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

  Amanda Burton

  Years, Looks, Use

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• Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

  Berenice Bejo

  World, Want, Actresses

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dad, Son, People

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Girl, Character, People

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

  Dennis Chavez

  Liberty, May, Eras

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• While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Mother, Taken, Affair

  "Frances Bean Cobain Says Dave Grohl Never Creeped on Her" by Christopher R. Weingarten, www.spin.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

  Jean Dujardin

  America, Actors, France

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

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• Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

  Jean Dujardin

  Black And White, Simple, Cinema

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

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• I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.

  Jean Dujardin

  Thinking, Eyelashes, Silent Films

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

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• I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Children, Evil

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• I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

  Namie Amuro

  People, Listening, Singing

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• I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.

  Chadwick Boseman

  New York, Writing, Artist

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

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• Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

  Bryan Adams

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Song: Heat Of The Night, 1993

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• Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.

  Yosa Buson

  Nature, Water, Evening

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• The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Civilization, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Inspirational, Mother, Taken

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.150, U of Nebraska Press

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• While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.

  Neil Diamond

  Religious, Song, Voice

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• I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Smart, Black And White, Artist

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• Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Creating, Needs, Stories

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Trying, Stories, Actors

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• Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Girl, Silent Films, Film

  "‘The Artist’ Star Penelope Ann Miller: ‘It’s A Love Letter To Cinema’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Eye, America, Life Is

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