My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they’re like, ‘Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.’
Younger generations in particular, who have spent a great deal of time in information environments since they were small children, would feel like a fish out of water if they were shut out of the global stream of information.
If I was just to shut up, I wouldn’t be a true artist.
You have the right to kill me, but you don’t have the right to judge me. That’s life. There’s nobility in that. There’s focus. It’s genuine. It’s crystal and it’s pure and it’s available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
In elementary school, we all say, ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.’ In high school, we should say, ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.’ So that’s what I’m telling high schools all around the world.
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
When I sing, people shut up.
Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
I’ve got a guy in my office that works 24/7 to shut down websites that are putting ‘Dead Air’ on the net for free – ripping us off. The problem is many people are of the mindset that says, ‘If I can watch it for free, I’ll watch it.’
I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn’t want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn’t figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.
To shut off coal, or to say you can’t have further coal development, I think is the wrong way to go.
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won’t shut up about it, but it’s not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn’t choose to be exposed.
A man is not scared of playing, of having any contact, and you won’t shut him down if you kick him – he will just ask for the ball all the time.
There is no time you should shut the doors, as there is always love out there for you.
Nobody wants to shut down the government.
We lived above the church, and I remember there was no air conditioning in the church. I would shut all the windows and I would have concerts in there. Practice, you know, take the microphones.
How do I play the princess thing? I don’t, really. I don’t like talking about it much and find it annoying when people say things like, ‘Oh, you’re the princess.’ One of my best friends jokingly says, ‘Hi, Princess,’ and I say, ‘Shut up.’ It is one of the things that bugs me most in the world.
I’ve heard people on panels say, ‘You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,’ and I just want to say, ‘Shut up. Everything you’re saying is wrong.’ People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.
The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.
Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for everything likes that. Maybe we should shut energy down for 24 hours, see how people like that.
I’m a pretty private person, so I’d like to say I’m a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.
That’s my advice to all homosexuals, whether they’re in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don’t tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
I’ve always fought for what I believe in. I used to get made fun of for dancing, and I would argue back, or fight the kids, or do whatever I had to do to shut them up. I have that in me.
They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
The right really dominates radio, and it’s amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn’t. They want to shut other people up. They really don’t understand the First Amendment.
If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.
All day long, I’m creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.
A lot of actors, you can’t get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they’re always telling you something.
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
