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I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

- James Denton

For many years I have so labored and I can say modestly that my name is very much honored all over Africa, in my struggles for their independence.

- Paul Robeson

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

- William Shakespeare

(modestly, on being promoted to a full cast member after working 45 episodes as a guest star:) "That was a complete surprise."

- Andy Hallett

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

- Alan Holt