Crowds Quotes

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  A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

  Loretta Young

  Empowerment, Empowering Women, Charming

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• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Strength, Leadership

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.205, Harper Collins

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  A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Live Concerts, My Favorite

  "Paranoia & Power : Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons" by Gene N Landrum, (p. 60), 2007.

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• The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Different, Following The Crowd, Walks

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• Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Powerful, Following The Crowd

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• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

  Alice Meynell

  Loneliness, Eye, Looks

  Alice Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1899). “The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays”

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• The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Men, Giving, Ploughing

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “The Road Back: A Novel”, p.249, Random House

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• I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Care, Extroverts

  "How to Cash In on Your Passion". Interview with Rich Brooks, www.fastcompany.com. October 12, 2009.

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• You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

  Max Beerbohm

  Men, Sheep, Legs

  Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 9

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• If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue,
  Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch;
  If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
  If all men count with you, but none too much;
  If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
  Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
  And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Running, Hurt

  "If - " st. 4 (1910)

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• It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate.

  J. William Fulbright

  Voice, Speech, Exhilaration

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• Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

  Ben Brantley

  Know How, Knows

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• Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

  Trent Reznor

  Spiritual, Festivals, Kind

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• You always feel better when you sing. Music touches people's hearts. You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity, it just moves you and it will let you cry. It's worth it doing a show and when you touch a crowd and move yourself at the same

  Jewel

  Moving, Heart, Feel Better

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• I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.

  Justin Bieber

  Crush, Hurt, Hands

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• For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Years, Lasts, Miserable

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• The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Life, Courage, Struggle

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• The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Confidence, Crazy

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Ears

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

  Liz Phair

  Different, Seems

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• It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Mean, People

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• The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

  Guy Lafleur

  Long, Giving, Crap

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• Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

  Alice Cary

  Men, Soul, Single Relationship

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.180

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• You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

  Janet Jackson

  Endurance, Inequality

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