Proud Quotes - Page 29

• I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

  Nandan Nilekani

  Facts, Wealth, Transparent

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• The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

  Carl Pomerance

  Science, Numbers, Mathematics

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• I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it.

  Art Wolfe

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
  That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
  The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Mind, Silent

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.339, Vintage

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• Steve held us to a high standard. He told us he was going to when we first met him at the USA camp. He's been a great leader. I mean, the guy always keeps his composure. He has an amazing mind for the game, and man, Steve, I'm just proud of him. The way he's balanced everybody and let us know what our roles are, he's been great for us. Him and the whole coaching staff. We all deserve this together, we work so hard.

  Klay Thompson

  Mean, Men, Nba Championships

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Believe, Character, Past

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• If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

  John Calvin

  Gratitude, Talent, Betray

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.33, Baker Books

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• I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.

  Ben E. King

  Breathing, Long, Tests

  "Ben E King dies aged 76" by Peter Walker, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2015.

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• I really like my first movie a lot, "Kicking and Screaming." I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't "Citizen Kane" right out of the box, you know? It wasn't "Sex, Lies and Videotape."

  Noah Baumbach

  Sex, Lying, Thinking

  "Director Baumbach Tracks Family Failure". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. November 29, 2007.

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• If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

  Patrick Chan

  Sports, Athlete, Government

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• I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

  George Weinberg

  White, Tall

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• Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

  Mohammed Omar

  Scary, Islam, Defense

  "Taliban vows vengeance". www.wired.com. September 14, 2001.

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• I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.

  John Slattery

  Fashion, Crazy, Hairstyles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hard Work, Get Better, Trying

  "Benedict Cumberbatch on ‘The Imitation Game’ and making Alan Turing less of an enigma". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 28, 2014.

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• As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Pride, Color

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• One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Idols, Worship

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• Come near; I would, before my time to go,
  Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
  Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

  William Butler Yeats

  Rose, Red, Way

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
  Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
  And that is why their lovers are afraid
  To tell them a plain story.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Stories, Stubborn

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Marriage, Fall, Sloth

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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• What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humble, Men, People

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• I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Country, Pride, Greatness

  Speech during the presentation of the new national symbols, October 19, 1978.

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• The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.

  Henry Fairlie

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.47, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leadership, Jobs, Latin

  "Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. August 10, 2014.

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• In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary to make that dream a reality. We can be extremely proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our Nation and our way of life endure. We are free.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Dream, Freedom, Taken

  Gerald R. Ford's Address at Memorial Day Ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 31, 1976.

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• Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.

  Grover Cleveland

  Honesty, Book, Blessed

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