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There's so much that can be learned from French cooking, especially really traditional, more modest meals.
I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's a desirable trait.
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
What I value is that I have been able to do some modest work to help women rise to the level of their potential.
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.
I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.
Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
I think, going forward, we need to be much more modest on expectations with regard to China growth: That's just being realistic.
We're going to reserve our efforts and our national solidarity for the most humble, the most modest, and the most poor among us.
I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a modest thirty-four.
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.
When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.
For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.
I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never had reason so to judge him.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
Both my husband and I come from very modest backgrounds. He's obviously done very well, and I've worked hard all my life and done well, too.
I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.
Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.
The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local shopping mall.
Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.
Christian sisters should not at any time dress extravagantly, but at all times dress as neat, modest, and healthful, as their work will allow.