Preaching To The Choir Quotes

• I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

  Michael Moore

  Song, Needs, May

  USA Today, June 20, 2004.

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• Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

  Dan Savage

  Triumph, Doe, Arms

  "Marriage can be right for us all, says Dan Savage. But let's not get carried away with monogamy" by Wyatt Buchanan, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2005.

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• Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

  Olivia Wilde

  Powerful, Essence, World

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• My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes in our lives are not the people who read poetry, unfortunately. Poetry not specifically aimed at political revolution, though, is beneficial in moving people toward that kind of action, as well as other kinds of action. A good poem makes me want to be active on as many fronts as possible.

  John Ashbery

  Moving, Political Revolution, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For those in the conservative movement to think that you're going to change minds only by preaching to the choir, you don't understand how media works. So that's probably the most potent weapon out there is to go fight the fire, go towards the fire.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'.

  Noam Chomsky

  Movement, Kind, Choir

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.

  Jello Biafra

  Writing, Eye, Ideas

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody reads poetry," and then a thousand people write back, "No, we read poetry." There's an abundance of this negative preaching to the choir, and it's very similar to the experience I'm having.

  Eileen Myles

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

  Trent Reznor

  Marketing, Choir, Found

  "The nine lives of Trent Reznor". Interview with Mark Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2013.

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• % of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Usa, Singing

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• I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

  Phil Elvrum

  Ideas, Choir, Preaching

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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