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“It feels like home, far from home, yet homely. I have always been a fan of Delhi's practical life not that i have lived in an aspiration or yearning to make a living here, but delhi has always been on my soapbox.”

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Book:The Masquerade

Source: The Masquerade

“Social media is the ultimate soapbox derby...”

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Author:Nanette L. Avery

“...But on social media, everyone is an 'expert' judge: for sure anyone can get it right through deep analyses and in retrospect, sitting comfortably at home, typing on their soapbox after the fact; but at the same time, most people will get it wrong when forced to act or speak on impulse, in a panicked, heat-of-the-moment situation with no time to think. In its self-righteousness, or in any way whatsoever, the creation can never fool the Creator.”

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Author:Criss Jami

“I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.”

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Author:Jeremy Renner

“For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.”

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Author:Art Alexakis

“Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.”

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Author:Walter Koenig

“I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.”

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Author:Nick Offerman

“I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs." With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs." But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.”

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Author:Nikki Sixx

“It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and...oh, we don't do that anymore." I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.”

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Author:Mike Royer

“I know some stories about "liberation" and stuff that's been liberated by people who turn around and get on their soapbox about how it's unfair that the artists didn't benefit while they're sitting on stuff that they "liberated," but that's another story for another time.”

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Author:Mike Royer

“The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.”

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Author:Naomi Watts

“I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.”

Way Get Up Living My Life Just Live I Live My Life Soapbox

Author:Ingrid Michaelson

“I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level.”

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Author:DJ Shadow

“There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.”

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Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.”

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Author:Liberace

“I want young people to ask me if I'm serious. Our young people have been lied to and misled for so long. When I stand on this soapbox, I want young people to ask me that because once they know I'm serious, they'll be willing to ride with me.”

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Author:Nate Parker

“If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.”

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Author:Damian Kulash

“It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk shows, the average American's support for the surveillance revelations grows.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.”

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Author:Dylan Moran

“I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”

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Author:Anita Loos

“This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.”

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Author:Frank I. Cobb

“I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.”

Thinking Should Cinema Provoking Soapbox

Author:Jeremy Renner

“I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.”

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Author:Jude Law

“As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.”

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Author:Carl Hiaasen

“It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements.”

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Author:Zach Braff

“My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.”

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Author:Carl Hiaasen

“I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.”

Affection Soapbox

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.”

Needs Yeah Get Up Soapbox

Author:Dylan Moran

“One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.”

Want Watches One Thing Reader Pulpit Soapbox

Author:John Grisham

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