Applause Quotes - Page 6

• It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

  John Lithgow

  Laughter, Age, Enough

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• Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

  Artur Schnabel

  Demand, Notes, Receipts

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, September 29, 1951.

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• I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.285, Routledge

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• How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.

  Jay Leno

  Night, Government, Idols

  "The Tonight Show", February 1, 2006.

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• And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back to normal screech.] And I don't care what kind of hero they are, they're an enemy of God. And had it been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter woulda been put to death! [Applause.] You don't make heroes out of warlocks. This is the generation that's gonna stand for purity, an' righteousnesss, an' holiness, an' you're gonna serve the lord all the days of your life.

  Becky Fischer

  Hero, Voice, Scary

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• The applause and the favour of our fellow-men
  Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

  Ovid

  Appreciation, Men, Flames

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• Applause abates diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Praise, Diligence

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.29

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• Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

  Homer

  Shining, Chance, Action

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• I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up.

  Dan Marino

  Growing Up, Athlete, Thinking

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• It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Real, Men, Battle

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• Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.

  John Lithgow

  Stars, Laughter, Teenager

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heroism, Literature, Hunger

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• As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

  Warwick Davis

  Opportunity, Actors, Film

  Interview with Christopher Carle, April 11, 2012.

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• The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

  Angela Bassett

  School, Florida, Alive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.

  Donald O'Connor

  Laughter, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home. We are freedom's defender. We welcome this charge of history, and we are keeping it. The war on terror continues. The enemies of freedom are not idle. And neither are we. This country will not rest, we will not tire, we will not stop until this danger to civilization is removed.

  George W. Bush

  Country, War, Home

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Bush-Cheney 2004 Reception in San Antonio, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 30, 2003.

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• The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Eye, Land

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.116

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• The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

  Thucydides

  Winning, Past, Romance

  History of the Peloponnesian War bk. 1, ch. 1

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• When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on as plainly as we can speak, and tell them of their sin, and shame, and misery: and we expect, not only that they should bear all patiently, but take all thankfully, and we have good reasons for all this; and most that I deal with do take it patiently... But if we speak to a godly minister against his errors or any sin... if it be not more an applause than a reprehension, they take it as an injury almost insufferable.

  Richard Baxter

  Godly, Men, Errors

  "Gildas Salvianus; the Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work". Book by Richard Baxter, 1656.

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• You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

  Andre Agassi

  Mean, Tennis, Peers

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.378, Vintage

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• Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greed, Despair, Demand

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.214

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• What makes us exceptional - what makes us American - is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

  Barack Obama

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Rights

  Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 21, 2013.

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• Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Fear, Heart, Humble

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

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• Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Careers, People, Ballet

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• Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these over the years, and I can answer without batting an eye: No. Accomplishments, applause, awards and fortune are rewards that often come as the result of hard work and a determined spirit, but there is something bigger. Something better. Something that will outlast the winningest season, the plushest corner office, the heftiest bonus and the loudest cheers. That something can only be found when we look beyond the final score.

  Tom Osborne

  Cheer, Blessed, Hard Work

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