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"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."
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"We should welcome applause whenever it comes."
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"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."
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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
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"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."
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"Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward."
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"For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful."
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"Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys."
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"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."
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"What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."
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"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
Time
"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
Animals
"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."
Love
"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
People
"I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too."
Love
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
Man
"We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."
Age
"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."
Nature
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
Effort
"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."
Mankind
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