How could anyone like me for my true self? Being gay, disabled, loud and funny was too much in one 5ft person.
Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Ask me my influences, I always talk about Bjork and Beck because they're independent voices in the music industry.
We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.
A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!
When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.
It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
I like to remember what I have to be thankful for. When it gets bad, I usually list them out loud to my wife and myself. Helps me maintain a balanced perspective.
On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
Coming from the U.K., you realize how quiet England is, and as soon as you get to America, it's really big and brash and loud out here, and South by Southwest was the epitome of that.
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.
Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.
Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.
I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.
While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.
As disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.
This is life we've been given, made to be lived out, so... live out loud.
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.
I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.
I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.
I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.
I am not going to stand by as people like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg silence the voices of millions of conservatives.
Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard.
When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.
To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
I, for myself, have wanted to get more into producing because I want to be a part of the conversation and be one of the voices in the story we're trying to tell.
Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck.
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
When I was growing up... I'm not going to say I listened to everything, but when it comes to vocals, I was really adamant about imitating all kinds of voices.
Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.
Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.
Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.
The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent.
I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.
Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.
Comedy and art go hand in hand, even if it's not laugh-out-loud.
Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, myself, and even Bill Goldberg, for crying out loud, main-eventing Wrestlemania. That is WCW's legacy.
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer!
The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.
Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true.
Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free.
We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
I'd been to Nashville a few times before, but never thought something like this would happen. It's a dream to sign with Atlantic and Big Loud.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.
But nothing will ever change if we keep pretend. People 'live out loud', as you say, not merely for themselves but for a more honest future.
The Pavarotti and Galway albums were a lot of fun because I got to work with two of the best 'voices' in the world.
Earth does not understand her child,
Who from the loud gregarious town
Returns, depleted and defiled,
To the still woods, to fling him down.
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