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• If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Writing, Simple

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.

  Victoria Chang

  Thinking, Kind, Easy

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• News flash, Fern Taylor!" Ambrose barked, slamming his hand against the dashboard, making Fern jump. "Everything has changed! You are beautiful, I am hideous, you don't need me anymore, but I sure as hell need you!""You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love," Fern snapped. "I didn't just l-love you because you were beautiful!" She'd said the L word, right out loud, though she'd tripped over it.

  Amy Harmon

  Beautiful, Love You, Hands

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• Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.

  David Samuels

  Car, Radio, Insects

  "The Pink Panthers" by David Samuels, www.newyorker.com. April 12, 2010.

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• As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

  Jenny O.

  Thinking, Ugly, Truth Is

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• Sometimes silence can seem so loud.

  R. Kelly

  Silence, Sometimes, Seems

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• I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Answers, Earth, Way

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

  Brian Blessed

  Quiet, Pensive, Maniacs

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• The transfer society is forever testing the bounds of patience of taxpayers. Having reached the limit and still facing loud demands for more benefits, it resorts to deficit financing.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Forever, Benefits, Demand

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• Well, a lot of things surprised me. There were things that I had never thought about, in my life. I never thought about how loud prison was. I've never thought about how your ears never really get a break from all this noise. That was actually replicated on our set pretty well.

  Taylor Schilling

  Ears, Noise, Prison

  Source: collider.com

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• My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

  John Ridley

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

  Will Rogers

  Funny Things, Half, Whispering

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Rocks, Break Through

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Cry out loud once. Look at the mirror & shake it off. I've cried like that before & others will have times like that too. Cheer up. You're not alone.

  Kim Jong-hyun

  Cheer, Mirrors, Looks

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• Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.

  Julie Burchill

  Lows

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• If only loud people were even half as interesting as they think they are.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2012

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• Count your blessings, but not out-loud, at the top of your lungs.

  Demetri Martin

  Blessing, Count Your Blessings, Lungs

  Twitter post from Jul 17, 2012

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• I spent nine days in the Downtown Los Angeles City Jail. The judge gave me a suspended sentence and I went to work that night - wailed just like nothing happened. What strucked me funny though - I laughed real loud when several movie stars came up to the bandstand while we played a dance set and told me, when they heard about me getting caught with marijuana, they thought marijuana was a chick. Woo boy - that really fractured me!

  Louis Armstrong

  Stars, Real, Night

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• An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

  Christopher Columbus

  Men, Loud Voices, Sky

  "Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for October 13, 1492,

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• It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party.

  Eugene Mirman

  Music, Party, Cab Drivers

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• My neighbor complains every time my girlfriend and I have sex. We're not even that loud. But he used to date my girlfriend.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girlfriend, Sex, Complaining

  Twitter post from Aug 20, 2010

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• I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.

  Dov Davidoff

  Drinking, People, Acting

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 21, 2011

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• Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

  Chris Hardwick

  Writing, Ideas, Laughing

  "Crafting a Joke: The Arc of an Act" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.

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• I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sleep, Silence, Ears

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Speak, I Can

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