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• You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

  Simone Elkeles

  Skills, Car, Athletic

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, Simon and Schuster

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• Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Play, Childhood

  Vanity Fair ch. 67 (1847 - 1848)

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• They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, People, Brain

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• Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

  Mark Twain

  Communication, Opportunity, Missing

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• What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Creativity, Designer

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• Shut up and let me see your jazz hands.

  Gerard Way

  Jazz Hands, Mcr, Let Me

  "Song: "Shut Up And Let Me See Your Jazz Hands" (Album: "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys")". 2010.

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• I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried the poor nurse. "Yes. Absolutely. I'll be right back." [...] "Thanks," I mumbled. "I'll just change here. He's not looking at anything at the moment." I gestured toward Sam, who was looking convincingly sedated. The nurse vanished through the curtains. Sam eye's flashed open again, distinctly amused. He whispered, "Did you just tell that man you went potty on yourself?" "You.Shut.UP." I hissed back furiously.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Hero, Tired

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.412, Harvard University Press

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• The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again. River: What face? The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face. River: This is my normal face. The Doctor: Yes it is. River: Oh, shut up. The Doctor: Not a chance.

  Steven Moffat

  Song, Clever, Doctors

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• I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

  Kenneth Williams

  Troops, Looks, Host

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

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• Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Joy, Woe

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 255

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• When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

  Garry Marshall

  School, Play, Genius

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• I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look. "For crying out loud," he said. "It's a racoon." "Poor thing," I said. "It could be a rabid baby-killer," Cole told me primly. "Shut up," Sam said pleasantly.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Baby, Looks, Arms

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• Well, PZ Myers, Jen McCreight, Phil Plait, Amanda Marcotte, Greg Laden, Melissa McEwan and others have all already said it, but I figured I should post this for the record: yes, Richard Dawkins believes I should be a good girl and just shut up about being sexually objectified because it doesn’t bother him. Thanks, wealthy old heterosexual white man!

  Rebecca Watson

  Girl, Believe, Men

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• We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Moving, Hero, Ideas

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• Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

  Jessica Zafra

  People, Giving, Manipulation

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes ma'am.

  Tim McGraw

  House, Four

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• Shut up, I know what I'm doing!

  Muhammad Ali

  Knows

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• Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

  Bill Whittle

  Talking, Want, Argument

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• Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged.'

  Pamela Moore

  Air, Water, Als

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• Shut up," Morgan said, whirling on the woman and pointing the sword at her. "Shut up, you shrill harpy, before I aid you in doing so by means of a dozen ways you won't care for in the least." Adhémar's fiancée fell, blessedly, silent.

  Lynn Kurland

  Mean, Mars, Care

  Lynn Kurland (2010). “Star of the Morning”, p.240, Penguin

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• What, no Power Rangers Band-Aids ?" "Shut up, Garett." "Yes, ma'am.

  Cindy Gerard

  Band, Power Rangers, Aids

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• Wow you need to get some sun.” “Shut up. I'm Irish.

  Kevin Hearne

  Needs, Wow, Sun

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One”, p.233, Del Rey

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• You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Goes On, Shade

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1726, Penguin

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• Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.

  Stephen King

  Mom, Growing Up, Stand By Me

  "Stand by Me". www.imdb.com. 1986.

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