Prize Quotes
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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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The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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There are no prizes for average performance.
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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 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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Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
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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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We like the gift when we the giver prize.
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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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Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
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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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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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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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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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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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The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.
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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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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.
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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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I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I had my first electric, a Silvertone with the amp built into the case, and I won first prize.
