Soapbox Quotes

• If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

  Mel Brooks

  Winning, Dictator, Rhetoric

  "Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

  John Grisham

  Watches, Want, Pulpit

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• As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

  L. Neil Smith

  Talking, People, Novelists

  "Merchants of Fear" by L. Neil Smith presented to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, February 20, 1994.

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• I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

  Nick Offerman

  Opportunity, Hands, People

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

  Jeremy Renner

  Thinking, Cinema, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

  Cate Blanchett

  Sitting, Should, Knows

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• I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Affection

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• I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Way, Living My Life, Get Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.

  Jude Law

  Brilliant, Utopia, Lifestyle

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• If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

  Damian Kulash

  Powerful, Real, Differences

  "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Anger, Humour, Angry

  "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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• In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Plato, Ideas, Republic

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• I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Believe, Writing, People

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• I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

  Anita Loos

  Women, Justice, Diversity

  Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.

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• I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

  Dylan Moran

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Intelligence Services, Done

  Financial Times Interview, www.ft.com. February 15, 2006.

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• It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk shows, the average American's support for the surveillance revelations grows.

  Edward Snowden

  Morning, Sunday, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

  Liberace

  Self, World, Politician

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• For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.

  Art Alexakis

  People

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• Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.

  Walter Koenig

  Thinking, People, Might

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• I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs." With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs." But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.

  Nikki Sixx

  Kids, People, Support

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

  Jeremy Renner

  Thinking, Cinema, Stories

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

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• I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

  Dylan Moran

  Needs, Get Up, Yeah

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• It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and...oh, we don't do that anymore." I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.

  Mike Royer

  Men, Wife, What If

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level.

  DJ Shadow

  Levels, Corporations, Extremes

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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