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“You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.”

People Ifs Giving Break Mouths Give Me Dry Sweat Hostile

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.”

Ifs Running Black President Loses Mouths Vote Clinton Vices Vice President Palin

Author:Paul Mooney

“In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.' In high school, we should say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.' So that's what I'm telling high schools all around the world.”

Ifs World Should School Nice Mouths High School Around The World Say Anything Elementary School

Author:Nick Vujicic

“My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our friends and neighbors gathered in the elementary school gym on that Sunday afternoon, despite an ugly Maine snowstorm. They listened to the thoughtful searching debates and saw us cast our votes. How could anyone suggest we didn't know exactly what we were doing? 'What's the point of electing someone who doesn't believe in the American people?' they asked. 'If she wants to ignore us now when she's only a candidate, what will she do as the President?'”

“Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated. . . . Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.”

Ifs Men Believe Humans Self Spirit Taught Holy Judgment Mouths Scripture Certainty Holy Spirit Ministry Majesty Gazing

Author:John Calvin

“I think if you're gonna run your mouth at somebody and they call you out on it - that's it!”

Ifs Thinking Running Mouths Running Your Mouth

Author:Wade MacNeil

“I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.”

Ifs Real Night Girl Rocks Band Mouths Ill Wave Singers Locals Enjoyed One Night Rock Bands Playing Around

Author:David Bowie

“Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.”

Ifs Character Problem Terrible Solutions Mouths Locals Toms Berlin Harlem Translators Cringe Slang Learning English

Author:Daniel Kehlmann

“I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.”

Ifs Persons Fans Mouths Closest Website Exaggeration

Author:Katy Perry

“I got a parking ticket one time in L.A. and I was furious about it. I was trying to prove a point to the guy who gave it to me and I put it in my mouth and chewed it up. And the guy just kept watching me, like, "Yeah?" He didn't think I was going to finish the job. So then I swallowed it. The good news is that paper is not a big deal if you eat it.You'd be full, but you could eat the phone book. So that was the weirdest thing: a parking ticket.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Book Bigs Jobs Guy Deals Prove Paper News Mouths Yeah Phones One Time Tickets Good News Big Deal Furious Parking

Author:Rob Huebel

“I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these people to approve of everyone's manners. I don't feel obliged to defend the manners of every poet who submits a poem to my web site. That's not my job. My job is to provide them with an opportunity to speak from the heart. If there's not much in the heart and if the mouth is running wild, that's not my problem.”

People Ifs Feels Heart Country Problem Running Jobs Opportunity Speak Havens Poet Mouths Asking Bills Manners Behave Submit Site Obliged Newts Bill O Reilly Running Wild Speak From The Heart

Author:Sam Hamill

“A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.”

Ifs Men Littles Mouths Sick Drunk Bourbon Getting Drunk

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“There might be people out there who wouldn't hire me because they thought I should keep my mouth shut, but I'm not aware of that. Even if I saw evidence of that, it wouldn't really concern me.”

People Ifs Should Might Saws Mouths Evidence Concern

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“If it's a good record or a good recording, then word of mouth will build for that reason, not before the fact, not before anyone's heard it, not because of MySpace or the label.”

Ifs Reason Facts Records Heard Mouths Labels Word Of Mouth Good Records

Author:Spencer Krug

“If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.”

People Ifs Thinking Photography Mouths Plenty Say Anything Enlightening

Author:Bill Jay

“If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.”

Ifs I Can Millions Mouths Doing Nothing Because I Can

Author:Muhammad Ali

“A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.”

Ifs Knows Said Sound Fine Mouths Scientist They Said Stumbling Microwaves

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.”

People Ifs Way Want Giving Years Kind Enough President Advice Trump Smart Mouths Give Me Seven Ran Governors Seven Years Good Advice Advisors

Author:Chris Christie

“There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.”

Ifs Nice Mouths Keeping Your Mouth Shut

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“If you get mad about how your voice sounds when it comes out of your own mouth, it's not really my fault. Go ahead and be yourself.”

Ifs Sound Voice Mouths Mad Faults Being Yourself

Author:Samantha Bee

“If you've ever sang in falsetto, you know that your throat is between your voice and your mouth. In a standard voice, you sing from your belly. And when you sing in a falsetto, you're blocking that. It gives it a filter. It gives it a character. It's less revealing.”

Ifs Knows Giving Character Voice Standards Mouths Block Throat Belly Revealing Filters Falsetto

Author:Cass McCombs

“George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself.”

Ifs Want Hands Father Sex Figures Mouths Have Faith I Want You Father Figure

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated.”

Ifs Way Should Littles War Running Guy Bits Attitude One Thing Advice Policy Little Bit Mouths Size Complicated Foreign Policy Peers Good Way Smack Bad Advice

Author:Barack Obama

“If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced.”

Ifs Able Mouths Extras Cash Accusers

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers. Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.”

Ifs Years May Happens Today Social Hours Week Minutes Media Months Messages Mouths Years Ago Twenties Social Media Customers Horrible Seconds Word Of Mouth

Author:Bill Capodagli

“The average politician speaks out of both sides of their mouth. No matter if it's Canada or the United States. And it's all three levels of government here and all parties. They act one way in front of the people and they think people are stupid and they can blow smoke where the sun doesn't shine for these people. And people don't buy it anymore.”

“The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my mouth: "A good man needs to know his limitations."”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Remember Mouths Philosopher All Time Limitation Dirty Good Man

Author:Ted Nugent

“My own personal sound is really progressive. It's like a mixture of gospel, pop, neo-soul, R&B. It's like a huge gumbo. If you're eating gumbo you grab a whole like cup full of whatever. You're getting a whole bunch of stuff that makes this amazing food in your mouth. So that's essentially kind of like what my sound is.”

Ifs Kind Soul Whole Stuff Sound My Own Huge Eating Mouths Pops Bunch Cups Progressive Mixtures Gumbo

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."”

Ifs Want Children Home Grows Mistake Love You Dangerous Arms Mouths Our Children Your Children Coming Home I Want You One Love Say I Love You

Author:Maya Angelou

“If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.”

Ifs Want Mouths Fullness Anointing

Author:Joyce Meyer

“My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.”

People Ifs Trouble Beats Mouths Tendencies Drummer Lager

Author:Brian Molko

“I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.”

Ifs Done Jobs Mouths

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.”

Ifs World Want Bigs Attention This World Mass Mouths Presentation

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!”

Ifs Looks Mouths Add Lips Colour

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.”

Ifs Thinking Want Beautiful Youth Worship Mouths Appearance What You Want Cease Idiot Looking Good

Author:Patton Oswalt

“I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.”

Ifs Mouths Direct Take Me

Author:Ron Perlman

“My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.”

Ifs Mother Grew Grew Up Mouths My Sister Shut Up Soap Foul Gasoline Pennsylvania

Author:John Piper

“Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.”

Ifs Trying Art Self Would Be Lying Speak Fool Mouths Censorship Self Censorship Literary Art

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.”

Ifs Exercise Mouths Sticks Work Out Checks Right Thing Diabetes

Author:Halle Berry

“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”

“Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.”

Ifs Poor Mouths All Things Angry Teeth

Author:Franz Schubert

“If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.”

Ifs Mind Eye Film Morning Internet Capable Mouths Tiny Tissues Hardened

Author:Will Self

“If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.”

Ifs Heaven Mouths

Author:Navjot Singh Sidhu

“If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.”

Ifs Knows Mean Community Rights Willing Equal Mouths Commitment These Days Equal Rights

Author:Hal Sparks

“When you gossip, it's self-hexing. Because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything starts with the word. The word is demonstrating a condition of the mind. If it's in your mind and comes out of your mouth, it will be created.”

Ifs Mind Self Conditions Mouths Gossip Demonstrating

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.”

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.”

Ifs Would Be Language Nice Mouths Seven Just One If I Could Being Nice

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”

Ifs Humanity Animal Mouths Cat Allergic

Author:Daniel Handler

“A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.”

Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic

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