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• Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

  William Shatner

  Flags, Mark, Audience

  "It's 'Shatner's World' And He Wants You To See It". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 18, 2012.

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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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• People striving for approval from others become phony.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Approval Of Others, People, Strive

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• At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

  Paul Tournier

  Heart, Acceptance, Personality

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• Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Done, Want

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• I've always been looking for other people's approval.

  Johnny Vegas

  People

  "Tears of a clown" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2006.

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• The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

  Ellen G. White

  Daughter, Mother, Encouraging Words

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• I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honor, and the love of a good man; lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and a proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the non-plused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Men, Keys

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 10, 2011

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• So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.

  Wendell Berry

  Years, Practice, Two

  Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”

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• Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Voice, People, Needs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the consequent of Jericho and all. Not to pretend out God has somehow changed since the time of Christ. Obviously, Paul's idea of admirable and noble is quite different from ours. God forgives us, Bill. We have mocked His victory by whitewashing the enemy for the sake of our neighbirs approval." No Greater Love has any man.

  Ted Dekker

  Men, Ideas, Evil

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• I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Heart, Emotional

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• Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

  Harvey Mackay

  Self Esteem, People, Rejection

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Years, Numbers

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• Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

  Pamela Anderson

  Audience Of One, Realizing, Audience

  "Pamela Anderson: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.

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• I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Land, Constitution Of The United States, Sacred

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

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• The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Covenant, Doctrine

  "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

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• The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

  Jimmy Carr

  Jobs, Personality, Comedian

  "This much I know: Jimmy Carr". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2011.

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• Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

  Dave Chappelle

  Fields, Comedy

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• Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Hard Work, Parent

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• I'm so glad I'm not a dentist. How many times does someone say, 'Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth'? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone's face light up - that's immediate approval.

  Paula Deen

  Light, Giving, Littles

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• If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Numbers, Justice, Accountability

  "Dershowitz: Torture could be justified". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. March 4, 2003.

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• When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people's approval.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Children, People, Actresses

  "Kirsten Dunst in Depth". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 10, 2008.

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• With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

  Ron Fournier

  Leadership, Approval Rating, Lost

  "Why Gov. Christie Is Presidential Timber" by Ron Fournier, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2013.

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