Miles Davis
Musician
"Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up."
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Mary Edwards Walker
Surgeon, Women's rights activist
"If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Oh, shut up Weatherby."
Emile Zola
Novelist
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
Ingrid Bergman
Actress
"I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up."
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"Opportunities don't knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen."
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"So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."
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"What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up."
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"If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared."
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"Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up."
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"Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up."
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"We've got Nancy Pelosi. She never shuts up. It's just occasionally we have to hood her like a falcon so we can get some sleep."
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"If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon."
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"I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up."
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"Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable."
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"I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't."
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"Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever."
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"I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them."
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"Shut up, I know what I'm doing!"
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"Everybody shut up. Let us work."
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"I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up."
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"...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves."
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"Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up."
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"The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned."
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"A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway."
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