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"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."

"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."

"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."

"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."

"The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me."

"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."

"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
Explore more quotes by Golda Meir

"There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row."

"As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing."

"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

"Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome."
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