I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
Pamela Sargent
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I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.
Gordon Getty
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In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
Loretta Young
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My social media is riddled with me speaking out on stuff that matters because silence is a petri dish for hate. For me, it's important to speak out.
Natasha Rothwell
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Great souls suffer in silence.
Friedrich Schiller
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To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
Emanuel Ax
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The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
Jay Griffiths
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie
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I like silence.
Ellsworth Kelly
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By the time I got to 'Silence of the Lambs,' I was madly in love with close-ups because I'm madly in love with actors, and a basic premise of 'Silence of the Lambs' is the story about two people fighting their way into each other's heads.
Jonathan Demme
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
Ira Glass
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Every interaction with another person involves a dance of expectation, even when you're just passing someone in the street. Inside those moments - however brief they may be - there is a kind of anticipatory silence.
David Means
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There is nothing quite as loud as the silence of an audience when a comedian is on stage.
Dominic Holland
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
Gary Oldman
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When a monk takes a vow of silence, is he still allowed to post messages on the Internet? Chances are God won't find out. Being ancient, God probably can't work computers. He holds the mouse gingerly, like it's made of fine china.
Charlie Brooker
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For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
David Wong
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Felicia Hemans
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
Craig Bruce
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We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
Daniel Barenboim
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I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
Billy Childish
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Music is the silence between the notes.
Claude Debussy
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