Applause Quotes - Page 12

• When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess –- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let's get to work.

  Barack Obama

  Laughter, Sitting, Want

  "Barack Obama, remarks at University of Michigan". www.politico.com. May 1, 2010.

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• Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get? At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Dog, Wall

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.95, Anchor

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• We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

  Steven Pressfield

  Attention, Sake, Fortune

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.161, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?' So that’s the time I joined the Ku Klux Klan in Miami. The reason I joined is to see if I could change them. So I dissolved that organization in a month-and-a-half, alone. [Applause] Then I joined the White Citizen Council. The WCC hates foreigners – all foreigners. So I joined that organization; I dissolved it in one month.

  Jacque Fresco

  Hate, Organization, Ku Klux Klan

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• To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, Caring, People

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• If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some people. Parricide - the sacrifice of children - robbery - usurpation - cruelty - intolerance - prostitution, have all in their turn been licensed actions, and have been deemed laudable and meritorious deeds with some nations of the earth. Above all, Religion has consecrated the most unreasonable, the most revolting customs.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Children, Sacrifice, People

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• Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

  George Washington

  Art, Real, People

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.90

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• If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

  Sharon Needles

  Strong Women, Ghost, Stage

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• Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Sound, Frying

  "Jim Gaffigan: King Baby", 2009.

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• We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Country, Husband, Taken

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, Essence, Achievement

  "The Spirit of the Liturgy". Book by Pope Benedict XVI, 2000.

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• As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, War, Character

  Edward Gibbon (1781). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.8

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• I don't know which I like best. I love the applause on the stage. But pictures are so fascinating - you reach many millions through them. And you make more money too.

  Ginger Rogers

  Stage, More Money, Fascinating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.

  Anthony de Mello

  Appreciation, Acceptance, People

  Anthony De Mello (1999). “Anthony De Mello: Writings”

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• Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!

  Augustus

  Play, Roles, Comedy

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• We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Praise, Vulgar

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Classical dialogues (Roman) Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”

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• For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

  Olivia Munn

  Inspirational, Basketball, Men

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• A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

  Phyllis Diller

  Song, Lines, Singers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Humble, Heaven

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra - (applause) - as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Awards, Actors, Likes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Acceptance, Men, Criticism

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• A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

  Aberjhani

  Men, Brain, Sitting

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.

  Francis Quarles

  Hands, Generosity, Giving

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• True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Loyalty, Failure, Character

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