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  • A big, spectacular thing can frequently be accomplished quickly. Quality usually takes longer. Fanfare and fireworks are not part of quality; therefore, only those who know true values are attracted to it. But when fanfare and fireworks are over, quality will remain. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
  • Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. -- Russell Lynes
  • I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare. -- Andrew Scott
  • Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare. -- Daniel Dennett
  • You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up. -- Priscilla Presley
  • In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge. -- Evan Osnos
  • To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences. -- Roy Wood
  • I like having my autonomy; I like going into the vegetable aisle with little fanfare. Very few go into that star category, in that uber above-the-title category. The rest of us, day in and day out, we're there to support what they do. -- Beth Broderick
  • It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns. -- Prabal Gurung
  • Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room. -- Jon Scieszka
  • I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, when it comes to fanfare, Hawaii is nuts and in L.A. they're all so jaded. They don't care. -- Evangeline Lilly
  • Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare. -- Chris Brogan
  • Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare. -- Duke Ellington
  • The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking. -- Jason Pollock
  • I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that's what I admire most. -- Mariska Hargitay
  • The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things. -- Joanne Harris
  • Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare. -- Peter Gabriel
  • Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be! -- Rosa Luxemburg
  • Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication. -- Cynthia Ozick
  • The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them. -- Mark Ruffalo
  • I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him. -- Ned Yost
  • Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare -- Lane Olinghouse
  • You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me. -- Mary Oliver
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