Modest Quotes
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
Erica Jong
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I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
Nancy Lopez
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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
Craig Venter
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The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
William Shakespeare
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Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.
James Keller
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
Paul Klee
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If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.
William Collins
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
Al Pacino
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I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.
William S. Burroughs
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I'm much too modest a person.
Malcolm Muggeridge