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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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True greatness consists in being great in little things. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#consists #great #greatness #little #little things

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers. ↗

— Rod Stewart

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Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#away #business #day #everybody #going

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#music #music business #posing #you

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#clear #experience #get #give #kids

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#business #comedians #directors #grew #had

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#thing #thought #worst #worst thing

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#actions speak #any #get #indicate #into

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me. ↗

— Sting

#big enough #creative #emotional #enough #i