quotes about Spectators
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All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
-- Augusto Boal -
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
-- Bernard Malamud -
Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.
-- Billy Graham -
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
-- Daniel Day-Lewis -
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I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.
-- Dmitri Shostakovich -
... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.
-- Elaine DundySource : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.37, New York Review of Books
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I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.
-- Evel Knievel -
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Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.
-- Helen WillsSource : HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”
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I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
-- Howard Hodgkin -
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We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.
-- John F. Kennedy -
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
-- Joseph Addison -
If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.
-- June Callwood -
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
-- Lance Armstrong -
As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
-- Landon DonovanSource : "Landon Donovan: World Cup Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 17, 2006.
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The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
-- LeRoy Neiman -
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by
-- Lou Holtz -
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It is the spectators who make the pictures.
-- Marcel Duchamp -
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
-- Marian Wright EdelmanSource : "'Capitalism is evil,' says new Michael Moore film" by Mike Collett-White, www.reuters.com. September 6, 2009.
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Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.
-- Mark TwightSource : Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.157, The Mountaineers Books
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The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.
-- Matthew CrawfordSource : Matthew B. Crawford (2009). “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work”, p.71, Penguin
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The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.
-- Mervyn Levy -
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
-- Oscar Wilde -
The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.
-- Sybil LeekSource : Sybil Leek (1972). “ESP--The magic within you”, Abelard-Schuman Ltd
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Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?
-- Joshua OppenheimerSource : "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.
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I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.
-- Robin McGraw -
Morality is not a spectator sport.
-- Thomas LickonaSource : Kevin Ryan, Thomas Lickona (1992). “Character Development in Schools and Beyond”, p.356, CRVP
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