Quotes with applause

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  • Campbell Brown Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Barack Obama Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Baltasar Gracián The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Claudius Claudianus The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
    Claudius Claudianus
    Latin writer of Greek descent (370 - 404)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George M. Adams There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
    George M. Adams
    American newspaper columnist (1878 - 1962)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
    a man, inching across it in the space
    between our thoughts. He holds our breath. There is no word net. You want him to fall, don't you?
    I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
    The word applause is written all over him.
    Standing Female Nude (1985)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alfred Jarry We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Jose Narosky We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
    Jose Narosky
    Argentinian writer (1930 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bob Dylan What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Walt Whitman When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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