"Zealous, not modest." — James Beattie

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• All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was… — Paul Auster
• I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax… — Michele Bachmann
• Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be… — Russell Baker
• I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. — Max Beerbohm
• To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that… — David Bowie
• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand. — Lakhdar Brahimi
• Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can… — Julie Burchill
• The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. — David Byrne
• Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. — Abraham Cahan
• It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of… — Helena Bonham Carter
• The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. — Paul Cezanne
• Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. — Winston Churchill

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