"If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear."

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Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

Chuck Berry

#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #Being Ignored Quotes

“There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.”
“There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation”
“I know itâ€™s been 15 years since the Bills made the playoffs. Well get ready, man, weâ€™re going. We are going.”
“On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath.”
“Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably don't even think of themselves as practitioners of nonviolence. Maybe it's time they did.”
“Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do.”
“Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.”

Source : Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1973). “Agnes Martin: exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”

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