Shut Up Quotes - Page 11

• Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Artist, Opportunity

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• What gets me is when celebrities aren't allowed to have an opinion on anything political. There's the whole 'Shut up and sing' thing.

  Wanda Sykes

  Political, Opinion, Whole

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where we can just be ourselves and nobody says, 'Don't tell me your opinion, you damn Jew, go somewhere else.'" Then you go to this country and other Jews tell you to shut up. It's frustrating. I think that we have a bad government and that some people are fearful. They're going with the class bully. But I really truly believe - you read it in my stories - that deep inside, people have goodness.

  Etgar Keret

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there's a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.

  Susan Boyle

  Bullying, Silly, Peaceful

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• I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's own experience...has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Art, Writing, Passionate

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• I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They are not-in Montgomery. That is why I am here today. . . . You want to shut up every colored person who wants to fight for the rights of his people!.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.42, Beacon Press

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• But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Brother, Heart

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• Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

  Joan Baez

  Depression, Thinking, Mind

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years - Rudy Giuliani
  Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming:
  1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
  2. Whenever you're right, shut up

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Marriage, Years, Two

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• The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Running, People

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5637, Delphi Classics

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• Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.

  Alain de Benoist

  Class, Immigration, Firsts

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• That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

  Bill O'Reilly

  School, Army, Boys

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• Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

  Jello Biafra

  Order

  "Song: 'Message From Our Sponsor' (No More Cocoons)". 1987.

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• When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Notebook, Prayer, Heart

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• If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.

  Patrick Swayze

  Cancer, Two, People

  "Swayze: Outlived Most With Pancreatic Cancer" by Joseph Brownstein, abcnews.go.com. September 16, 2009.

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• The good thing about Pittsburgh, it's a good place to be raised... it doesn't tolerate assholes. You're either a good guy or you're a bad guy... When I'm in Los Angeles having these incredibly surreal moments where nobody's saying anything and everybody's talking incessantly, I always have that Pittsburgh voice in my head - shut up, smile, get the job, move on.

  Dennis Miller

  Jobs, Moving, Talking

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• If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'

  David Mermin

  Would Be, Copenhagen, Interpretation

  N. David Mermin (2016). “Why Quark Rhymes with Pork: And Other Scientific Diversions”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

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• Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

  Joschka Fischer

  Years, Next, Topics

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• I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

  Richard Widmark

  Thinking, Should, Performers

  "Television" by Dick Adler, www.nytimes.com. March 7, 1971.

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• It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

  Peter Greenaway

  Miserable, Easy

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.

  Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul

  Moving, Office, Political

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• So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said, 'No, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.

  Theo de Raadt

  Eight, Years, Giving

  "Staying on the Cutting Edge". Interview with Sam Varghese, www.theage.com.au. October 08, 2004.

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• Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

  William S. Burroughs

  Forever, Telling The Truth

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.2, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We have a name," said Jace. "Magnes B-" "Shut up." Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured. "Jesus," he rubbed his arm. "What's your problem?

  Cassandra Clare

  Jesus, Names, Arms

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• God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

  George Sand

  Heart, Fighting, Sorrow

  George Sand (1915). “... Fanchon the Cricket: Or Fadette”

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