Modest Quotes - Page 7

• Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Humility, Thinking

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• It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to get those films made, but I'd rather try to get those films made than compromise too much.

  Julian Jarrold

  Interesting, Trying, Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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• This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Retirement, Home

  "Obama evokes Roosevelt rhetoric". "The World Today with Eleanor Hall", www.abc.net.au. December 7, 2011.

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• I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.

  William Monahan

  Achievement, Guy, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

  David Starkey

  Kings, Henry V, Propositions

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• All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

  Al Pacino

  Dancer, Trying, Dues

  "10 Questions for Al Pacino". Interview with Rebecca Winters Keegan, content.time.com. June 14, 2007.

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• We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success.

  Karl Popper

  Attitude, Littles, Firsts

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• My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry picking. These difficult early years probably constitute the sources of my modest photographic activity.

  Martin Munkacsi

  Years, Trying Everything, Berries

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• Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Ambition, Mean, Modesty

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• I've been in towns where there is no library, or where the library for the high school and the library for the town is one room, and it's smaller than my modest living room here. So you don't have many resources in 1950 or even 1970. This is the year, 2013, every town in America is connected to the web. Every town in America is therefore connected to all kinds of resources at the Library of Congress, at 100,000 websites.

  James W. Loewen

  School, Years, America

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• That scene that I have with Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black is one of my favorite scenes that I've ever done. He's very modest. He's a real hardworking actor. I think he was going through something difficult at that time, and he never brought his personal stuff - not once! - on the set. He was a real pro. I remember doing that scene, and as I was acting, I thought, "I understand why this guy's a movie star." Because there was just something that he did when the cameras rolled. There was some kind of energy that was really magnificent, a real aura about him.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Real, Thinking, Black

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Wall, Skills

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• I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart.

  Andy Borowitz

  Care, Bullets, Proposal

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jan 11, 2011

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• The money our society spends goes to appease those with power. As such, it goes mainly to those who don't need it. A nation that redistributes income to its poor buys a civilized and humane society, and it buys this with a miniscule share of the national income and a modest reduction in the supply of cleaning women. A country that subsidizes workers in the prime working years sacrifices, not a dust-free living room, but the very muscle of the national economy.

  Mancur Olson

  Country, Sacrifice, Dust

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• Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.

  James Keller

  Journey, Hopeful, Gains

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• We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.

  Allen W. Wood

  Names, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The impact of QE on generating more lending by Wall Street to Main Street and in generating more employment and increasing overall investment in the economy is quite modest. QE probably limited the initial collapse of the economy in 2008, and likely had a very small positive impact on economic growth, but its broader impact on jobs and growth in the economy seems not very big.

  Gerald Epstein

  Jobs, Wall, Impact

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• With the Cuban presence in Namibia it was possible to achieve the security and real freedom of that country and the end of Apartheid in South Africa, with the modest contribution of the international military presence in Africa.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Real, Military

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a very modest scale. It's all about scale. We're not going to build giant wind farms with Godzilla-sized turbines all over the place. That's a fantasy.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Believe, Wind, Keys

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• There is an initial modesty in Liberalism. Liberalism was not originally a doctrine of "man is the king." No, it was a very modest attempt to build a space where people could live together without slaughtering one another.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Kings, Men, Space

  Source: www.electronicbookreview.com

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• My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And that really resonated as a nine-year-old child. And one of the most revealing things was, very soon after my father died - he was in real estate and he owned some modest buildings - they came to my mother, the men that worked for him, and they said, "You don't have to worry. We will run the business and we will take care of you." And my mother said, "No, you won't. You will teach me how to run the business and I will take care of it and my children."

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between those few moments of modest but decisive catastrophe, misfortunes so fittingly flimsy they're almost welcome. The heart doesn't storm that often on its own, so you have to wait for something outside of yourself to get the wrecking ball rolling, and then you're set: you've finally got an impression to make on others - you're in the world distinctly and distinguishable now. It's only by our ravages that we're recognizable to each other at last.

  Gary Lutz

  Writing, Heart, Waiting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm living in a very modest place. I have a room over-looking beautiful Claridge's Hotel. I thought it was better than paying Claridge's prices and overlooking the dump I'm living in.

  Jack Benny

  Beautiful, Rooms, Dump

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• Balanced, sensible nutrition: eat food, not too much, mostly plants, a healthy diet ala Michael Pollan, modern physical activity on a daily basis, modest weight loss - translated into a 58% reduction in the occurrence of diabetes. A clear indication of the power of lifestyle over health. The challenge now is the development of the community-based programs that will translate what we learned in the diabetes prevention program and put it to work in every town in America.

  David Katz

  Loss, Challenges, Healthy

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man.

  Gavin Friday

  Nice, Sunday, Night

  Source: bigthink.com

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