Clapping Quotes - Page 3

• I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.

  Zayn Malik

  Past, One Direction, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Politicians that proclaim big words without meaning rule in democracy. At best they allow themselves to discover that it's better to be rich and healthy than sick and poor and that it is necessary to care for 'good of Poland" - clap clap, hurricane of clapping.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Sick, Healthy, Democracy

  Blog post, April 12, 2009.

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• Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.

  Robert O. Becker

  Pain, Communication, Responsibility

  Robert O. Becker, Gary Selden (1985). “The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life”, William Morrow & Company

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• I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.

  Will Smith

  People, Used, Ends

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• I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it's a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Feet, Hands, Feelings

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• Comedy crowds - we always want to come out and ask you, 'How you feeling?' We always say that, 'By a round of applause, how do you feel?' Right? 'By a round of applause, how you feeling?' It's the only place in the world that you judge how you're feeling by a round of applause... There's never like a car accident, people all over the ground, people running over - 'Ma'am! Ma'am! By a round of applause, how do you feel? By a round of applause - she's not clapping!

  Dane Cook

  Running, People, Judging

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• I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!

  Harry Crews

  Suicide, Running, Weed

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• Kids audience is a brilliant audience. If you've got an audience of adults standing up and clapping, or you've got an audience of kids standing up and clapping, I know which one I'd choose.

  James McAvoy

  Kids, Adults, Brilliant

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• When I came here in 1999, all one could hear was the sound of the guns as guns were booming all around. Today I am only hearing clapping of hands.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Gun, Hands

  "Modi in Kargil: Want Progress to Replace the Sound of Guns". www.indiatoday.in. August 12, 2014.

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• Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Royal Variety Performance, 4 Nov. 1963

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• My mother told me, “Son, it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.” I have tried very hard to heed those words.

  Dave Barry

  Sick, Healthy, Rich

  Interview with Karen Zarker, www.popmatters.com. May 2, 2010.

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• Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

  Charles Lamb

  Blessed, Veins, Irony

  Charles Lamb (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.75

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• "Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."

  J. K. Rowling

  Hunting, Hands, Library

  "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". Book by J. K. Rowling, June 26, 1997.

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