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• To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

  David Bowie

  Couple, Life And Death, Musician

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

  Paul Auster

  Children, Writing, Ambition

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• I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Humble, Modesty, Virtue

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 4, sc. 5, 1951.

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• Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Appreciation, Men, Genius

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

  George Gershwin

  Mother, Extraordinary Things, Gershwin

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• I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

  Peter Bergen

  Thoughtful, People, Kind

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• If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

  Philip Johnson

  Arrogant, Architect, Knows

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

  David Heyman

  Unique, Men, Boys

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• Modest humility is beauty's crown.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Humility, Crowns

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• A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.

  Abu Bakr

  Islamic, Character, Men

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• A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Gay, Light

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• It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

  Jules Renard

  Modesty, Easy, Difficult

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• I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

  Michele Bachmann

  School, College, Law

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• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Clothes, Chinese, Flesh

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

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• I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

  Max Beerbohm

  Boys, Oxford, Max

  More (1899) "Going Back to School"

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• If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

  P. T. Barnum

  Queens, Humility, Men

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• The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

  Michael Eisner

  Mean, Successful, Odds

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• I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

  Marco Arment

  Trying, Stuff, Waste

  "NY Startup Guy Marco Arment Has Had 3 Companies Sell In The Past 5 Weeks" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

  Kent Conrad

  Government, Issues, Would Be

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• I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Never Forget, Grew Up, Forget

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• Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.

  William A. Dembski

  Religious, Philosophical, Intelligent

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• I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.

  Dick Gephardt

  School, Kids, Simple

  "Who Is Richard Gephardt?", abcnews.go.com.

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• I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

  Jennifer Egan

  Book, Squad, Usual

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• I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

  Colin Farrell

  Home, Guy, Painting

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• Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Age, Rereading

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