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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.


Napoleon Bonaparte
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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.


Gordon B. Hinckley
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My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.
John Lewis
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I always admired the beautiful stars of Hollywood and dreamt of becoming one of them.


Sonam Kapoor
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People who make no noise are dangerous.


Jean de La Fontaine
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.


Truman Capote
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We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.
Aaron Peirsol
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Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.


Sylvester Stallone
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
Jennifer Weiner
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
John Selden
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Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.
Kurt Masur
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In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.


George Strait
Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.
Robert Kiyosaki
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.


Caitriona Balfe
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.


Alice Walker
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.


Zsa Zsa Gabor
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.


John Ruskin
How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
Antony Gormley
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Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.
Michel Hazanavicius
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To be silent is to be passive.


Octavia Spencer
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