Prize Quotes
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I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.
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There's definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It's a nice gift, but there's a lot of wrapping and paper and junk to cut through. Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me. I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
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I have won several prizes as the world’s slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness.
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Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
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I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
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I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
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Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my haters tell em hi
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May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith.
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There are no prizes for average performance.
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Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
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Lithuania, my country! You are as good health; How much one should prize you, he only can tell, Who has lost you...
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You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.
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We like the gift when we the giver prize.
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In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
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Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
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I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.
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Benoit should get one adult first prize $41,000 and a Mercedes sedan if she wins, plus one child's portion $20,500 and a stroller.
