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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence Quotes
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer - in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I'm not going to rot away behind closed doors.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- Noise
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
- Lips
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- Nov 07, 2020
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
- Crowd
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel, day after day, helplessly and in silence.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition which is profoundly influenced by our social and cultural environments. Depression is a global crisis not only because it is common and universal, but because the vast majority of affected people suffer in silence or receive inappropriate care.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I moved to L.A. and auditioned and did very well there. My first gig was playing a skinhead in John Singleton's 'Higher Learning', and I played Glenn Close's son in a TV movie called 'Serving In Silence.'
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.
- Nov 07, 2020
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
- Bombarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn't say that about 'Beautiful Mind.' It's a good movie, but I'm much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with 'Silence of the Lambs.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their silence is praise enough.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.
- Dodging
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- Nov 07, 2020
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first interview at 'SI,' I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.
- Feign
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely have to make sure I have my Jamaican playlist whenever I go, and you've gotta listen to Popcaan. I really love his song 'Silence,' but the whole album, 'Forever,' is good. I love his melodies and flows. He just knows how to make good songs.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even silence is so articulate at times.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical silence. It seemed the busier my work life would get, the less I had to feed the other parts of my own soul, including the arts.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they're portrayed in films like 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Silence of the Lambs.'
- Extraterrestrial
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, 'Nothing out there!'
- Daily Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I give a facial expression in a moment of silence for audiences to react to what I just said and kind of let that marinate with the audience for a little bit. I enjoy the physical part of the comedy as much as the verbal content. People tend to gravitate to not only what they're hearing but also what they're seeing.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
My liberal friends, Congressional Black Caucus members, talk about fighting for the defenseless, the hopeless, and the downtrodden. There is no one more hopeless and voiceless than an unborn baby, but their silence is deafening. I can't hear them. Where are they standing up for their communities, advocating and fighting for their right to life?
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some causes silence is dangerous.
- Nov 07, 2020
People can say what they want. But you can silence a lot of people when you go out there and win.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.
- Concealing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of the 'New York Times' list of America's bestselling books.
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don't need a gun - and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
- Denounce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
We win with facts that are well expressed and frequently communicated; we lose with silence and indifference to the broader social context.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind starts to work creatively past 10 P.M. or 11 P.M. - all of a sudden there's silence and my head starts going.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is also conversation.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it's more powerful to leave you with nothing.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020