Beth Revis Quotes
She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
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I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.
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Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.
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She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.
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And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
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I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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"Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military clothing stems from that. It's not about macho, playing soldiers, anything militaristic. It's the functionality, the design-solutions, the durability. Likewise workwear.
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We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.
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She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
