"Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying."

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Source : Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

Ilka Chase

#Believe Quotes #Moving Quotes #Tears Quotes

“I don't get up and look at e-mail. I don't even know my e-mail address. I needed one just to have a computer put on. But I never, ever even thought of going to it. It's just not what I'm about. I just don't want to waste my life with it. It's just too much; I think people are just a little too absorbed in all of that.”
“The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.”
“Coo...coo... here comes the dove from above!”
“It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.”
“Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert.”
“My family and my friends-they keep me grounded. Especially my mom, because she would kick my ***** if I was to change.”
“When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.”
“Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it. But affronting the sanctities of about 1.5 billion Muslims is permissible in the West.”

Source : "Leader's Address to Air Force Servicemen". www.leader.ir. February 07, 2006.

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