“Noah Baumbach does more takes than any director I've ever worked with. He runs a very quiet set and he runs a very hard working set. He has such an intense level of dedication to what's happening that he cultivates a group of people around him who have an equal level of dedication. Nobody asks, "When is lunch?" That's just not part of our sets. It's complete immersion. He has a 'no cell phone' rule. Nobody checks their cell phone. Nobody reads on set. It's like, "If you're there, you're there. If you're not on board with that, don't work on this movie."” PeopleIfsDoeHardRunningAsksLevelsGroupsHard WorkQuietDirectorsEqualHappeningsPhonesIntenseChecksCellsBoardsLunchDedicationCell PhoneImmersion Author:Greta Gerwig
“Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference.” PeopleUsedLeaderGoneQuietInterferenceGuise Author:Raila Odinga
“Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you're quiet and you're just not the most gregarious person, that you're like.. I don't know, self-involved, rude possibly, frigid. I get that a lot from people who don't know me, like online all you guys think I never smile, ever. It's not true. I do smile sometimes.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsPersonsIdeasSelfSometimesGuyInvolvedQuietOnlineKnow MeRudeGregariousFrigidWrong Ideas Author:Kristen Stewart
“The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.” PeopleWarQuietVietnamVietnam War Author:Michael Caine
“Kristen is really focused and really quiet, as an actress. She just does her thing, but she's cool. I like her. I know a lot of people have mixed comments about her, but I think she's a rad person. She's just focused on what she's doing, as an actress, and she wants to pick the right roles, and she's committed to her craft. She's really cool. We got along. There weren't any tensions or anything.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantPersonsDoeRolesQuietPicksCommittedFocusedActressesCraftsTensionCommentReally CoolLike HerRad Author:Tinsel Korey
“So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they won't get mad about it, it just means they don't know about it. Because it takes a while for bad news to reach a rich person. First their accountant has to tell the butler, who has to tell the servant, who wouldn't dare interrupt their game of croquet.” PeopleKnowsFirstsMeanPersonsHas BeensGamesRichPossibilityQuietTaxesNewsMadRaisedDareServantRich PeopleBad NewsAccountantsButlersRich PersonCroquet Author:Craig Ferguson
“I'm actually kinda quiet off stage, a lotta people don't realize that. I was at a dinner party recently, a bunch of people that I don't know, one guy talking plenty for everybody. "Me myself right and then I and then myself and mee, me, I couldn't tell this one about I cause I was talking about myself and Me- Meee- Mee- Me- Me!" Beware the Me monster.” PeopleKnowsGuyCausesRealizingPartyTalkingStageQuietDinnerMonstersBunchPlentyDinner Party Author:Brian Regan
“What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.” PeopleUniverseInterestingNumbersSubjectsMastersQuietBillionsTyrannyManagersFundMutualVery InterestingMutual Fund Author:Ron Chernow
“I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.” PeopleIfsBelieveStillsSometimesMatterHardEnoughSoundTreeFlowerListeningQuietBirdI Still Believe Book:In Cold Blood Source: In Cold Blood
“There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to listen to every MySpace page, so what's the difference? It's just noise that you filter out.” PeopleSongDifferencesQuietPagesFolksNoisePianoFiltersPorchSalonsFolk SongsPlaying Piano Author:Tim Hecker
“I am also going to go with somebody who is the opposite of Donald Trump and her name is Johari Osayi Idusuyi. I think she represented millions and millions of Americans who look at the message that Donald Trump is using his fame and the power he has accumulated to,you know, to send out into the world and it`s horrified. And I think her quiet resistance represented so many people because I`ll tell you, people of color have been trying to warn this country about Donald Trump for a really long time and I think she reminded us.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldTryingLooksLongHas BeensCountryNamesMillionsColorTrumpFameQuietMessagesLong TimeOppositesResistanceReally Long Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.” PeopleBornQuietClaimsNonsenseTemperamentReservedPessimistic Author:Jess Row
“I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.” PeopleThinkingWayChildrenFatherParentKnownQuietAnxietyOptimisticSurvivorHolocaustTypicalDon't TrustHolocaust SurvivorDon't Trust People Author:Etgar Keret
“Two quiet people are not very fun together.” PeopleTwoTogetherFunQuietQuiet People Author:Kelly Blatz
“I want to let my fans know that I will not hold myself back anymore. Everybody knows me as "15-Year-Old Little Jessica who was on 'American Idol' and who is this sweet, quiet girl." I am very soft-spoken, but I have gone through numerous experiences, and I want to speak out and tell people what has been going on in my life.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsLittlesHas BeensGirlSpeakGoneFansSweetQuietIdolsKnow MeSpeaks OutJessicaAmerican Idol Author:Jessica Sanchez
“Of course I love when people are quiet, but I also love when people are comfortable. I love when people emote. The flip side of having a totally silent audience is that they're less likely to react to you in the space, and I think that's one of the great things about performing live: you get energy from the audience, and you give energy back to them. There's interaction.” PeopleThinkingGivingCoursesEnergySidesSpaceAudienceQuietComfortableSilentGreat ThingsPerformingInteractionFlipPerforming LiveEmote Author:Missy Mazzoli
“I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some kind of crazy mindblowing psychedelia thing happening, but actually, it was very quiet, and I didn't have any hallucinations at all. Nothing changed, except that suddenly I could hear the voice of my conscience, which I didn't ever think of as being a real voice. And ever since having that experience, I've had that voice in my head and followed it occasionally.” PeopleThinkingKindRealVoiceCrazyChangedQuietHappeningsConscienceThings HappenCuriousAssumptionThings ChangePsychedelicHallucinationsPsychedelic ExperienceVoices In My Head Author:Larkin Grimm
“As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a speech because i've had to do it so much. I've so much support from the people around me that I can achieve something like that, crazy introvert that I am, I never would have thought that would happen.” PeopleI CanHappensSupportCrazyAchieveFrontsQuietSpeechIntrovert Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I'm a Libra! I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone. If I can have even a twenty-minute walk or swim and another twenty quiet minutes to myself at night, I can be much more giving all day long.” PeopleIfsGivingFeelsLongI CanNightWalksMinutesBalanceQuietTwentiesSwimStableGroundedCraveMe AloneAlone Time Author:Laura Regan
“I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsChildrenBigsLastsThreeHouseLeftBornMy OwnFourChildhoodQuietDiedOur ChildrenNostalgiaEchoesHappy Family Author:Guy Maddin
“We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensCertainCultureSecretPracticeTeachingSpecialInformationBecomingEasierQuietBenefitsTraditionAccess Author:Sakyong Mipham
“Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.” PeopleThinkingColdQuietScaredRudeQuiet PeopleSnobby Author:Dee Dee Ramone
“I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.” PeopleWellsSometimesMovingLeaderExampleHeroQuietGlassesLegislationHornsKentSuper Hero Author:Barbara Mikulski
“This is why the social networks are successful actually, because we are living in a society where people are frustrated with living their own life but in a quiet world so thats why with the internet they are creating a new world and that is why society has changed a lot in the space of 10 years.” PeopleWorldYearsSocialSpaceSuccessfulChangedInternetQuietCreatingNew WorldFrustratedSocial Network Author:Emmanuel Petit
“Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.” PeopleIfsWantQuietDown AndSettlingTexasOutrageousSettling Down Author:Janis Joplin
“It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.” PeopleHeartWarStrongQuietStrong Heart Author:Chief Joseph
“I'm most inspired by people who are doing what they love in a big, loud way. And big and loud doesn't always have to be big and loud. Sometimes these people can appear as a quiet storm, but in their full expression everyone feels the impact.” PeopleWayFeelsSometimesBigsExpressionQuietImpactInspiredStormLoud Author:Karla Cheatham Mosley
“Before you speak, get very quiet, do the meditation, say, "Use me as a channel for what needs to get said to this community. This community needs to hear something very important that I'm the only person in the room who can say it. Please help open me so that I'm not frightened and speak through me. Let me be that channel so that I can help heal." You make yourself so humble that you really are like a flute and that music that comes out comes from el corazón. All the people you're connected to from that light that we call love.” PeopleNeedsPersonsSaidI CanImportantHelpingUseLightSpeakCommunityRoomsMeditationPleaseQuietLet MeHumbleConnectedHealFrightenedUsing MeFlutes Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there's a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindMayStillsStuffQuietDeserveSatisfactionRecognition Author:Abby Brammell
“The Baltic republics have invented something totally new. Do you know what? They use the word 'non-citizens' for people who have been living for decades in the territory of Baltic states and have been deprived of a number of political rights. They cannot participate in the election campaigns; they have limited political and social rights. Everybody keeps quiet about it, as if this is the way it should be. Of course, this cannot but cause a certain reaction.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayShouldHas BeensStatesUsePoliticalCertainCoursesSocialCausesNumbersRightsCitizensQuietElectionDecadesCampaignsReactionsDo You KnowRepublicTerritoryDeprivedPolitical Rights Author:Vladimir Putin
“I needed to find out what my goals were and what my mission was. After some quiet time and just seeking the Lord, He brought some people to the table that understood where I was trying to go.” PeopleTryingGoalLordNeededQuietUnderstoodTablesSeekingMissionsQuiet Time Author:Shonlock
“There were times when I was frustrated, and cried and felt helpless, but the reality in Ethiopia is that you don't have much of an option. You either keep quiet or you get added to the list of people being jailed or killed.” PeopleRealityFeltQuietListsCriedFrustratedHelplessEthiopia Author:Feyisa Lilesa
“Diane Wilson asked, "Why aren't people upset? Why aren't people protesting?" The mayor and county commissioners told her to keep quiet, and everybody else was afraid to speak out against the companies, which included some of the country's biggest chemical companies. There were even attempts on her life. Family members abandoned her, and certainly none of the other shrimpers stood with her.” PeopleCountrySpeakCompanyQuietMembersUpsetChemicalsAbandonedFamily LifeCountyMayorsSpeaks OutFamily MembersWilsonCommissioners Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in anything close to politics up to this point I mean much like his father-in-law, and he's just such an unknown figure. I mean at least we knew Donald Trump as a reality television star and as a very bombastic figure. But Jared is so quiet, and he's so uninterested in courting press attention.” PeopleMeanReasonRealityLawFatherStarsAttentionRolesFiguresTelevisionTrumpQuietPressesFascinatedIn-lawsReality TelevisionUninterestedBombasticFather In Law Author:Sarah Ellison
“Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.” PeopleShouldHeartGovernmentIssuesPoliticianQuietConcernedChinaDisrespectful Author:Ai Weiwei
“If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsMightAgeCoursesWaterImaginationTreeParticularQuietRiversStonesOpeningHeatSandFinding YourselfVillageCountrysideChristmas TreeRusticWiltingEnglish CountrysideElm Trees Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“What I find really astonishing is how quiet everybody is in my industry. I mean, nobody in the entertainment business except for maybe a handful of people ever speak out about what's going on. Nobody takes a political stance or expresses an opinion.” PeopleMeanPoliticalSpeakOpinionIndustryQuietEntertainmentHandfulAstonishingSpeaks OutStanceEntertainment Business Author:Madonna Ciccone
“It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.” PeopleWayMeanDoeActionPoliticalCertainAsksPleasureMoralPossibilityQuietCapitalismInjuryIconsSympatheticOutrageIdentification Author:Judith Butler
“Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them. But when very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law.” PeopleLawPoliticalEvilLeaderBreakNiceSeriousQuietCommitAmerican HistoryBeing NiceSenatorsDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceCongressmanPolitical Leaders Author:Howard Zinn
“People have to have the desire within themselves to find out who they are. Who am I and what am I doing here and where am I going? Those sort of basic questions. Even without picking up a book or anything. If they just ask themselves that sincerely, in the quiet of the night, the door will open.” PeopleIfsBookDesireNightAsksDoorsQuietSincerely Author:George Harrison
“The maha-mantra was prescribed for modern times because of the fast-paced nature of things today. Even when people do get into a little quiet place, it's very difficult to calm the mind for very long.” PeopleMindLittlesLongTodayDifficultModernQuietCalmFast PacedMantrasModern TimesQuiet Place Author:Mukunda Goswami
“When you speak words that are relevant to people, they automatically shut up and you know you are in the presence of some very magical words. It's a gift when someone can listen and be quiet and not interrupt.” PeopleKnowsSpeakQuietRelevantShut Up Author:Sandra Cisneros
“We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsLittlesCountryMomentsHappensOpportunityVoiceResponsibilityGroupsQuietOrdinaryDeserveExtraordinaryEverydayOfficialsExtrasMarchPathwaysRemindingExtraordinary ThingsIfs AndElected OfficialsDeserve BetterQuiet VoiceOrdinary And Extraordinary Author:Nina Turner
“I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingOrderNextDifferencesStepsCasesToo MuchRiskWeekKeysTrumpQuietElectionCrisisFolksBe GoodWho We AreMaking A DifferenceRight WayUrgentStep UpSteps Forward Author:Reid Hoffman
“In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights of women, students, young people, old people, farmers and workers. What are called "special interests" - meaning the whole population - they began to press to enter the public arena. And they said that puts too much pressure on the state and therefore we have to have more moderation in democracy and they should go back and be quiet and obedient.” PeopleShouldSaidStatesWholeYoungInterestDemocracyToo MuchRightsSpecialStudentsQuietPressurePressesWorkersPopulationVariousFarmersThey SaidModerationOld PeopleArena1960sObedientSpecial Interests Author:Noam Chomsky
“Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."” PeopleKnowsWantKindMadeSometimesSpeakWishFireHeardQuietComplainingBurningProphetBreastsKnowing GodWish YouDeep LoveCondemnationJeremiahFire Burning Author:Desmond Tutu
“People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights." No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!” PeopleThinkingWantI CanTodaySpeakWishRightsGayQuietNecksPalestinianCatchingGay RightsPlight Author:Desmond Tutu
“The only thing that dictates whether I respond to someone is whether I have something interesting to say in return. I respond to people I don't know at all, when their tweet hauls a nice fresh bucket of water up out of me, but if it comes up empty then I just stay quiet.” PeopleWaterInterestingNiceQuietEmptyTweetSomething Interesting Author:Patricia Lockwood
“We are a people that let the small things just go by because it's a little uncomfortable and nobody wants to ruffle a feather. If you're quiet and you're watching it, you're just as much at fault as the person there. You're watching a victim be berated and you're standing by, knowing that feeling in your gut that it's wrong. Now you have a tool in order to change that.” PeopleFeelingsQuietVictimUncomfortableGutsFeathersSmall Things Author:Don Iveson
“I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the stardom and celebrity that I can handle. But I also have peace and quiet. I am left alone. And I am not recognized everywhere I go and it's perfect. I can come and fill the theatres and I get on stage ... people say: "Well, oh yeah, that must be him," you know?” PeopleMeanPerfectQuietTheatreReally MeanLeft AlonePeace And QuietVery Thankful Author:Don McLean