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Just me existing, as an openly black transgender woman from a working-class background, thriving, is a political act. My brother always reminds me that if you are black in America and you're alive, you deserve a round of applause. There are so many forces that don't want us to be alive, and so just being openly who I am, and happy and thriving, is a political act.
Laverne CoxThe applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
Alec GuinnessInstead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?
Guy FinleyThe teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.
Michael JacksonApologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applauseโand a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.
Victor Davis HansonThe point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Gustav MahlerStill, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.
Chris HadfieldO, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
William ShakespeareTo test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz GrillparzerApplause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
Emanuel AxThe more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.
Robin SharmaYes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.
Giuseppe GaribaldiWhatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Charles Sumner