Awards Quotes - Page 24

• Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Struggle, Long, Achievement

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• Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Real, Bodybuilding, College

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• Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Meat, Kind, Shows

  "Tonys 2012: Q&A with Neil Patrick Harris on Eve of His Hosting Three-peat". "The Hollywood Reporter" Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

  Amy Adams

  Real, Views, Roles

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• School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

  Amber Heard

  School, College, Bored

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• The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

  Julianna Margulies

  Beautiful, Actors, Rooms

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• Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value
  to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith
  in them so I would prefer to stay away.

  Aamir Khan

  Giving, Film, Award Ceremonies

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• I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Brave, Rewards

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• I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Want, Hunger, Hungry

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• I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

  Nicole Kidman

  Glasses, World, Kind

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• Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Jobs, Winning, Men

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• I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Stars, Important

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• I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

  Queen Latifah

  Soul, Host, Hell

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• How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

  Naveen Jain

  Ideas, Giving, Important

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• Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable.

  Chanakya

  Punishment, People, Administration

  "Arthashastra" by Kautilya, translated by R. Shamasastry, Book I, (Ch. 4), 1915.

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• I aint gotta get a plaque, I aint gotta get awards I just walk up out the door, all the girls will applaud

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Doors, Bragging

  Song: I'm The Best, Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.

  David Berman

  Creativity, Design, Competition

  David B. Berman (2008). “Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World”, p.140, Peachpit Press

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• [Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Party, Guy, Would Be

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• It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

  Arthur Hiller

  Embarrassing, Embarrassment, Should

  "Arthur Hiller, Director of 'Love Story,' Dies at 92" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 17, 2016.

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• That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

  Janet Jackson

  Dream, Winning, Play

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• He's a lucky guy Cristiano, he always gets
  first row tickets to see Messi win his awards.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Winning, Guy, Messi

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• Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

  Alan Alda

  Encouragement, Giving, Get Better

  "2005 Tony Awards Q&A: Alan Alda". Interview with Robert Diamond, www.broadwayworld.com. May 20, 2005.

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• [from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.

  Jasper Fforde

  Party, Intelligent, Government

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• The quest for the next key art awards begins with tomorrow's hangover

  Nick Offerman

  Art, Hangover, Keys

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• The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

  Helen Hunt

  Earthquakes, Oscars, Desks

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