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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
Augustus
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If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.
Sharon Needles
4.
I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.
Emanuel Ax
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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
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We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
Emanuel Ax
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The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
Alec Guinness
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Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.
Claudia Christian
10.
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.
David Hume
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
Elias Canetti
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I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.
Brenda Lee
13.
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
George Lucas
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There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
Lynn Abbey
15.
Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
William Shenstone
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A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
Roger L'Estrange
17.
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.
Yehudi Menuhin
18.
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.
George Madison Adams
20.
There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
Herbert Marshall
22.
I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.
Eartha Kitt
23.
The applause of silence.
is the only kind that counts.
Alfred Jarry
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Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.
Kin Hubbard
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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
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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
Warren Buffett
28.
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
Warren Cuccurullo
29.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Jose Narosky
30.
The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.
Martin Yan
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Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
33.
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
Sydney J. Harris
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
Plato
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When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
Ruth Brown
36.
That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers
Andre Agassi
37.
C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
Rita Moreno
42.
Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.
Jim Gaffigan
43.
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!
Tom Peters
44.
There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
William Shakespeare
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We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
Steven Pressfield
48.
Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
Samuel Richardson
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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
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Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.
Lady Gaga