Shut Up Quotes - Page 17

• It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

  Jo Brand

  Hard Work, Too Much, Slapping

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• You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

  Isla Fisher

  Motherhood, Want, Topics

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• I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

  Amber Heard

  Thinking, Pills, Amber

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• I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

  Scott Ritter

  Believe, Needs, Empowered

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• When I sing, people shut up.

  Barbra Streisand

  People, Explanation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

  Patrick Swayze

  Angel, Trying, Speak

  "‘The View’ pays tribute to Patrick Swayze", www.today.com. September 15, 2009.

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• I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

  Desmond Tutu

  Wish, I Can

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• If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Country, Party, Gun

  "Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2012.

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• When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

  Prince William

  Running, Hands, Parent

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• I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.

  E. M. Forster

  Air, Expression, Names

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• Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door very happy. Hope your diodes rot. Thank you. Have a nice day. Stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. It is my pleasure to open for you... Zark off. ...and my satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done. I said zark off. Thank you for listening to this message.

  Douglas Adams

  Jobs, Nice, Simple

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.333, Pan Macmillan

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• You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

  Ana Gasteyer

  People, Able, Evita

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• Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!

  Milton H. Erickson

  Silence, Chairs, Trance

  Milton H. Erickson, Ronald A. Havens (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy”, p.10, Ardent Media

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• You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

  Bill Richardson

  Two, Two Things

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• If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

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• Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Voice, People, Silence

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• Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Skills, Offering

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• Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Average, Order

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 77), March 6, 1995.

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• Think about this - some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their duty. And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless - unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Fighting, Thinking, Vietnam

  "Made a Mistake". "Talking Points Memo" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 3, 2003.

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• Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.

  John Galsworthy

  Art, Real, Men

  John Galsworthy (2008). “The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.338, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.

  Sitting Bull

  Children, Games, Hunters

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 206), 1993.

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• When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.

  Shirley Bassey

  Singing

  "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.

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• Everyone has a story if you just listen and shut up.

  Dean Baquet

  Just Listen

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• [Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.

  Janet Malcolm

  Hypocrisy, Done, Benefits

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• My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Light, Opposites

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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