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• I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Humble, Stopping, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pain, Vanity, Names

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• People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

  Evan Bayh

  Thinking, People, Ego

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• Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Judging, Benches

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• But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

  Jay Mohr

  Comedian, Timing, Kind

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• I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dancing, Body, Way

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• Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Loss, Reality, Years

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• applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Echoes, Platitudes, Audience

  'The Cynic's Word Book' (1906) p. 19

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• The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

  John Dryden

  Men, Bravery, Honor

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• Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.

  Grace Slick

  Jobs, White, Interesting

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• Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

  Patti Smith

  Long, People, Needs

  "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.

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• It was all cheese and applause.

  Charles de Lint

  Cheese

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Widdershins”, p.297, Macmillan

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• When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Stars, Learning

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

  Ben Jonson

  Mind, Crowns, Virtue

  The Underwood,'An Ode to Himself' (published 1640).

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• My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

  Kathy Bates

  Mother, Doctors, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

  Dierks Bentley

  Cheer, Nice, Awards

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• Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Artist, Praise, Valuable

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• I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to receive it. And if we want to receive it, we cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Want, Spirit

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• Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

  Lady Gaga

  Pops, Chorus, Pop Music

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• Applause, applause, life is our cause.

  Joni Mitchell

  Inspirational, Causes, Life Is

  Song: All I Want

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• Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other’s company.

  Rumi

  Want Something, Soul, Rooms

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• When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

  Stephen Spender

  Littles, Chaos, Rich

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• Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.

  George Crabbe

  Home, Age, Care

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.278

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• The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Worry, Focus

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• If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.

  James Lee Burke

  Writing, Worry, Silence

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