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• It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

  David Hume

  Believe, Passion, Deities

  David Hume (1793). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.595

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• You just said you were sorry." ... "I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-

  Meg Cabot

  Sorry, Compliments You, Lasts

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Abandon”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get? At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Dog, Wall

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.95, Anchor

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• We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

  Steven Pressfield

  Attention, Sake, Fortune

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.161, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, Caring, People

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• When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.

  Leslie Ludy

  Christian, Inspiration, People

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• Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moon, People, Waiting

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• I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Laughing, Break

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• ... and people are to march around the church to commemorate the event, Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted with applause and with palms. People thought he had come to overthrow the Romans, but ... no ... he had come to change THEM ... and that led to things turning bad.

  Garrison Keillor

  Jesus, Sunday, People

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• If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

  Sharon Needles

  Strong Women, Ghost, Stage

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• Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

  George Washington

  Art, Real, People

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.90

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• Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

  Gloria Estefan

  Speak, Said, Audience

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• Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

  Charles Lamb

  Strong, Drinking, Men

  Charles Lamb (1856). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.271

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• Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Sound, Frying

  "Jim Gaffigan: King Baby", 2009.

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• I don't know which I like best. I love the applause on the stage. But pictures are so fascinating - you reach many millions through them. And you make more money too.

  Ginger Rogers

  Stage, More Money, Fascinating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to work out successfully in the end, because they don't know who they are apart from the crowds.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

  Bertrand Russell

  Exercise, Skills, Satisfaction

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.104, Routledge

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• God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that bear truth that outlasts the songs themselves. If I did this in hopes of thunderous applause and piles of cash, I would have quit years ago. But there are moments on the stage when I sense something magical, a connection with the band and the audience, when our stories intersect and suddenly we’re wading in an ancient river. Suddenly the song is secondary to the greater story being told through each of us.

  Andrew Peterson

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.

  Tom Baker

  Feel Better, Thinking, People

  "Interview: Doctor Who star Tom Baker". Interview with Paul Whitelaw, www.scotsman.com. August 20, 2009.

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• Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed. The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no supernatural power. A rationalized faith, a socialized Church and a moralized gospel may gain applause, but they awaken no conviction and win no converts.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Believe, Winning, Church

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• I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Successful, Accomplishment, Role Models

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

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• To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Winning, Simple

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

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• Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you know of your own abilities, you may be confusing applause with achievement.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Success, Thinking, People

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• [W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.

  Vincent de Paul

  World, Glitter, Sparkle

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• All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.

  Selena

  Dream, Fans, Asking

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