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• Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Ideas, Demand

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• A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored

  Patsy Cline

  Lying, Night, People

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• All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.

  Will Rogers

  Laughter, America, Long

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

  Bill Vaughan

  Power, Band, Drumming

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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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• Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Winning, Men, Play

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Gains, Energy

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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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• 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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• Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet.

  Chet Huntley

  Sycophants, Roles, Cheerleader

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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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• You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

  Skitch Henderson

  Real, Ice, Light

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Talking, Class

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.174, Knopf

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• Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and the cheering has stopped, they will face a smaller audience, the judgment bar of God.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cheer, Play, Church

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• To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

  Anna Pavlova

  Lying, Accomplishment, Words Of Wisdom

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• Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, People, Trying

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• A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Wind, Half, Dozen

  "Unappreciated Shakespeare". Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News magazine, Christmas Number, December 09, 1882.

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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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• Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Play

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