Prize Quotes
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I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.
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Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
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The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.
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Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
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Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
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Insight is the booby prize of life.
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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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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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Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
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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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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.
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I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
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With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
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You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.
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It's a bit embarrassing getting such a big prize. My collaborators really deserve it for all of their innovative and hard work. My long-time buddy, Paul Butler, has been the brains and the engine behind our planet search. I am indebted to him for every single planet we've found.
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The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.
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Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.
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Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.
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Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
