“I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.” PeopleThinkingVoiceKnownFrontsLetting GoI RealizedHardestThings To DoShyHardest ThingHardest Thing To Do Author:Paris Hilton
“What I realized with Funny or Die is that I could take it into my own hands. On a much smaller scale, I think these videos are an accurate representation of who I am. As weird as they may be, I'm at least proud of them, and it showed that I do have a slightly different voice. I can't tell you how often people bring up these videos in interviews, and I'm so happy to talk about them because we created them from the ground up.” PeopleThinkingMayI CanDifferentHandsDiesVoiceMy OwnProudI RealizedScalesWho I AmVideoInterviewsAccurateRepresentationDifferent VoicesFunny Or Die Author:Dave Franco
“I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.” PeopleThinkingYearsVoiceTermSeeingSixYears AgoAddFinancialEightHonestlyMainstreamInquiryCritiqueDissidentsFinancial System Author:Eliot Spitzer
“The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.” PeopleReasonAbleVoiceKnownOpinionMy FriendsAlbumsGrounded Author:Jay-Z
“You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFeelsYearsKindStatesSeemsVoiceAnswersGrowingEffectsMovementHappeningsToughStartingActiveBest WayCollectivesEmergingDisillusionedCampaigningDazed Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I had known that people would probably have strange reactions to my voice, because I have kind of an unwieldy, difficult voice, but I never thought that anybody would have a problem with the harp. I just assumed... C'mon, it's a beautiful instrument.” PeopleKindProblemBeautifulDifficultVoiceKnownStrangeInstrumentsReactionsHarps Author:Joanna Newsom
“I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that imagining that you "deserve" to be making it is - well, complex.” PeopleWellsImportantStoriesYoungVoiceDeserveComplexesScalesIntenseOperationsLarge Scale Author:Josephine Decker
“For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives that the studio system would put out about Latinos. I think this is why people like my films. They're refreshing. They feel more real.” PeopleThinkingFeelsRealStoriesFilmMovingVoiceBecomingStudiosNarrativeFilmmakerLatinoRefreshing Author:Aurora Guerrero
“I'm always thinking about that young girl or young boy who doesn't quite know if their music, their messaging, their imaging, their voice is going to pop, if people are going to understand them. So I represent the other and those who feel like they don't even want to be normal. They embrace the things that make them unique.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFeelsYoungGirlVoiceBoysNormalUniqueEmbracePopsAlways ThinkingImaging Author:Janelle Monae
“The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether it's from Tehran, or from some underground Al-Qaeda cell. The more aggressive that discourse is, the more people of moderate persuasion have to organize and speak a voice of compassion. That means to feel with the other.” PeopleFeelsMeanStatesSpeakVoiceUnitedCompassionUnited StatesIdeologyCellsAlsAggressiveOrganizeDiscoursePersuasionModeratesAl QaedaTehran Author:Karen Armstrong
“You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.” PeopleFeelsImportantYoungPassionOpportunityVoiceImaginationPowerfulPlanetsEmployeeMost PowerfulEducateStirringLone Author:Anita Roddick
“It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.” PeopleShouldMayHardSoundVoiceDoubtExpressionMonthsCrashRecessionsStock Price Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then becomes primarily the voice of the oppressed and it takes over from politics as a driving force for change.” PeopleWayIdeasCultureForceVoiceIndependentDrivingOppressedAvenuesDriving ForceIndependent Thought Author:Daniel Barenboim
“I tend to think of all new voices as a potential for failure, and all the people I've worked with before as the greatest potential for success.” PeopleThinkingVoice Author:Loren Bouchard
“It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.” PeopleVoiceCryTyrannyAnarchy Author:William Safire
“We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We're going to make it through this!” PeopleVoiceHigherStrongerWaveBeltsBannerUnified Author:Michael Jackson
“We must see the face of the Lord .... There are things that God says to me that I know must take place. It doesn't matter what people say. I have been face to face with some of the most trying moments of men's lives when it meant so much to me if I kept the vision, and if I held fast to that which God had said. A man must be in an immovable condition. The voice of God must mean to him more than what he sees, feels, or what people say.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenFeelsTryingMeanHas BeensSaidMatterMomentsFacesVoiceVisionLordConditionsFace To FaceVoice Of God Author:Smith Wigglesworth
“There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHumansStillsMatterStoriesFilmBlackVoiceHuman BeingsTechnologyIssuesComedyColorTypeRight NowCrisisAddressesBlack Lives MatterEnablingBlack Lives Author:Charles Burnett
“I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other people's work. It's important for anyone who wants to make films for a living, but I think perhaps it has an even greater weight for female filmmakers since they represent a much smaller percentage of the population. Their voices are fewer so they must be even stronger.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantImportantFilmVoiceGreaterFemaleWeightStrongerPopulationFilmmakerWorking ItCopiesFewerPercentages Author:Megan Griffiths
“I am very timid about speaking for the collective. I can say what I see, I can say what I've heard, I can say what I feel, but I can't speak for - no one can speak for - 10 million people, and it takes away something from them if you make yourself their voice.” PeopleIfsFeelsI CanSpeakVoiceMillionsHeardCollectives Author:Edwidge Danticat
“The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a group of people. That's not distancing yourself from a community, that's also allowing the space for others to speak for themselves.” PeopleMaySpeakVoiceCommunitySpaceGroupsAllowingEchoes Author:Edwidge Danticat
“I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.” PeopleVoiceMy OwnStageQuietSingingShyOnly Time Author:Emeli Sande
“If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.” PeopleIfsWayVoiceSingingOriginalsDiaries Author:Emeli Sande
“If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.” PeopleIfsWantWritingDifferentVoiceSimpleProfoundRapNoiseLoudHeartbeatRobbingLoud Voices Author:Russell Simmons
“With more people, there are more voices to tune out.” PeopleVoiceTunes Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“I just want to get my voice heard again and to allow people to know me outside of a group situation. I also want young girls who look up to me to know not to give up, even when people try and take you away from your destiny.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingTryingLooksYoungGirlVoiceSituationDestinyHeardGroupsGiving UpLook UpKnow MeNot Giving UpOur DestinyYour Destiny Author:LeToya Luckett
“People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.” PeopleWayWantVoiceCan DoDressesMakeup Author:Sasha Grey
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.” PeopleFeelsI CanCountryMomentsHelpingHomeChristianSpeakLanguageVoiceTermSafeMountainSpeechExpectationsWelcomeBuddhistHelp MeVocabularyComfortingHometownDialectFluentHome Country Author:Mary Rose O'Reilley