Quiet Quotes - Page 7

• I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.

  Samantha Bee

  Children, Shy

  Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

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• If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small theaters. You know, to me it's like a church for music. You can sit down and really give yourself to the performance and be comfortable with good surroundings and a clean, quiet atmosphere.

  Terry Bozzio

  Brother, Thinking, Giving

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• My husband makes me stay totally quiet in movies because otherwise it's [five minutes in] and I go, "Oh, so-and-so did it," and he's like, "OK, I haven't even finished my popcorn and you ruined it for me."

  Nancy Grace

  Husband, Popcorn, Minutes

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in anything close to politics up to this point I mean much like his father-in-law, and he's just such an unknown figure. I mean at least we knew Donald Trump as a reality television star and as a very bombastic figure. But Jared is so quiet, and he's so uninterested in courting press attention.

  Sarah Ellison

  Stars, Father, Mean

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the '50s and it was a quiet time in America, at least on the surface and I grew up in a kind of feathery bed of privilege.

  Bill Ayers

  Dream, Children, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mind, Relax, Firsts

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• The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

  Roger Housden

  Self, Everyday, Dimensions

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Islands, Oasis, Offering

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

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• You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.

  Bryce Wilson

  Men, Doe, Knows

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the same words that the prosecution had used in the penalty phase: that he [Todd Willingham] was a monster. And that got me to get on to the computer and connect with some of the media and say: "I have his letters. He wasn't a monster. He was a caring individual." Let them see another side.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Caring, Media, Monsters

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• He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

  Earl Scruggs

  Smart, Perfect, Brilliant

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• When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.

  Rolonda Watts

  Quiet Voice, Long Walks, Answers

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

  Sune Rose Wagner

  Decision, Albums, Conscious

  "The Raveonettes". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2008.

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• When you're in the more deeper stages of sleep - REM sleep, your body is quiet, but your mind is actually very active. So it's a time when your body and your brain is restoring itself. It's repairing any cell damage that happened during the day, it's really repairing, like I said, repairing your body, but also helps with digestion, helps with memory.

  Shelby Harris

  Memories, Sleep, Cells

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

  Rand Paul

  Reality, Self, Middle East

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.

  Tod Machover

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

  Tod Machover

  Squares, Oasis, Boston

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."

  Jeff Sharlet

  Doors, Bangs, Yeah

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Way, Praying, Stills

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.

  Russell Simmons

  Country, Kids, Keys

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat for, like, five seconds, I basically got the tempo, and I don't need to hear it no more. I just focus and write.

  Dreezy

  Writing, Focus, Causes

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

  James Ellroy

  Cities, Careers, Kansas City

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• I'm looking forward to some peace and quiet. I fantasize about having a home, which I've kind of never had.

  Lykke Li

  Home, Looking Forward, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

  Deepak Chopra

  Clearing Out, Inner Peace, Brain

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• Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Purpose, Want

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