Awards Quotes - Page 20

• Its a real honor to be included among the list of finalists, when you see the names that are there, ... Some of the guys who won the Hank Aaron Award in the past are thought of as some of the best players in the history of the game, so just to be included with those guys is really gratifying.

  Mark Teixeira

  Real, Past, Player

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• My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up and put his arm around me. I think it was like, 'Either way, mom, I still love you.' But then it was funny because I saw it. I saw my picture, and I heard them announce it, but I had to ask him, 'Did I really see that?' I wasn't sure I was seeing it, but he assured me that yes, I was nominated for the Academy Award. We just sort of cried a little bit.

  June Squibb

  Mom, Love You, Son

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• I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.

  Brandy Norwood

  Thinking, Grammy, Knows

  "Brandy seeks new level of respect with Grammy win". www.mtv.com. February 24, 1999.

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• The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority - rather, the contrary. This was something Brezhnev and Chernenko did not understand. In all, Stalin had about as many decorations as, say, Mekhlis, and four or five times fewer than Brezhnev

  Dmitri Volkogonov

  Men, Giving, Doe

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• Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

  Edward Norton

  Couple, Thinking, Good Movie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

  Bill Murray

  Groundhog Day, Scripts, Groundhogs

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• Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

  Harvey Korman

  Men, Actors, Nominations

  "Fictional character: Hedley Lamarr". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Art, Comparison

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• I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

  James McAvoy

  Kind, Ready, Knows

  "James McAvoy Interview - ATONEMENT". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.

  Groucho Marx

  Sex, Government, Iowa

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• I would like to thank ABC for giving me the Drew Carey award. It only goes to one lucky guy with glasses a year, and gosh darn it, tonight I'm the king of the... general area.

  Greg Proops

  Kings, Glasses, Years

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• Obviously, the best dressed awards is very relevant, I'm best dressed at all times.(smiles)

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Relevant, All Time

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• I don't know how many more of these awards I can come up for because I think a little bit is coming out of my pants right now.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Acting

  "The 2009 MTV Movie Awards – The winners, the losers, the magic". uproxx.com. May 31, 2009.

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• Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".

  Robin Williams

  Children, Memorable, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Would Be, Tvs

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• It's about people coming to an understanding, a realisation that we must bridge the gap, build bridges and make people aware of what's happening. The award gives me the kind of pride and understanding that most people wouldn't think of. It is strengthening the Yolgnu people, but it's also giving strength to Balanda people who otherwise don't have that kind of understanding.

  Mandawuy Yunupingu

  Leadership, Pride, Thinking

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• It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Sports, Mean, Winning

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• I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself from all the amazing people I've had the opportunity to work with thus far. You have to stay true to yourself and don't be afraid even though people may say what you're doing isn't cool or isn't right. I promise you, you will not regret it if you stay true to who you are and what you love to do because there is no other reason that I am up here today receiving this award.

  Emma Stone

  Regret, Opportunity, People

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• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Children, Sorry, Maturity

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Tchaikovsky, People

  "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.

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• There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

  Burt Reynolds

  Hollywood, Idiot

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.

  Terry Rossio

  Past, Long, Achievement

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• On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Honor, Guests

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• Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

  Bob Hope

  House, Welcome, Academy

  "Oscar host Alec Baldwin may also be nominee" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 30, 2009.

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• It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder… why didn't I get this sooner?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Honor, Fey

  "Ellen DeGeneres Birthday: 55 Reasons We Love Her" By Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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