Acceptance Speech Quotes - Page 2

• People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers you a free acceptance speech. There just seems to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana.

  Hugh Laurie

  Fall, Acceptance, Shoes

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• Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

  Patti Smith

  Beautiful, Book, Acceptance

  "National Book Award for Patti Smith". National Book Award Acceptance speech, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2010.

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• [Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

  Catherine Camus

  Teacher, Writing, Acceptance

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture”, p.3, Macmillan

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• I find myself having rehearsal chats, in my head, for conversations I need to have. Sometimes they are arguments, things I need to get off my chest, award acceptance speeches. Ultimately, it clears my mind, helps me focus my thoughts, and sometimes alleviates the need for the real conversation.

  Michael Lomenda

  Real, Acceptance, Awards

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• This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

  Conan O'Brien

  Acceptance, Giving, Black

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• Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches.

  Doug Benson

  Acceptance, Rapper, Speech

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2013

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• On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.

  Bill Cosby

  Acceptance, Winning, Giving

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• The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Memories, Laughter

  Lois Lowry, Bagram Ibatoulline (2011). “The Giver”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

  Jared Harris

  Fun, Acceptance, Thinking

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger is gonna be the new governor of California. During his acceptance speech Arnold said 'I will not let you down.' Unfortunately, at the time Arnold was holding a woman over his head and looking up her dress.

  Conan O'Brien

  Acceptance, California, Speech

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• During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I can't live like this. I can't take another second of this living hell.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Acceptance, Equal Pay, Speech

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• If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

  Will Rogers

  Acceptance, Keeping Promises, Greed

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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