Awards Quotes - Page 27

• Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot." [Hosting the Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence at the New York Waldorf-Astoria, June 6, 2006]

  Jon Stewart

  Country, New York, War

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• And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter. So there!

  Meg Cabot

  Princess, Boys, Central Park

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• (While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too have you.

  Frank Sinatra

  Tired, Helping Others, Night

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• Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

  Carrie Fisher

  Years, Bipolar, Insane

  "Wishful Drinking like". Book by Carrie Fisher, December 2, 2008.

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• Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lawyer, Notorious, Unlikely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

  Jon Stewart

  Host, Charm, Third Time

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

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• Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

  David Sedaris

  Winning, Wish, Sometimes

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• I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

  Steven Wright

  Tv Shows, Giving, House

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• I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

  Jacki Weaver

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

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• My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

  Barbra Streisand

  Mean, Together, Rooms

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

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• 'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Stories, Shields

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• I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

  James Taylor

  Achievement, Sometimes, Wonder

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

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• If I go to an awards ceremony, I wear a suit, of course I do. I am proud to be there. If there are young kids looking at pictures of me, I want them to feel that they should long for the opportunity to go somewhere really smart and wear a beautiful suit, rather than to reject that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Beautiful, Smart, Kids

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• One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.

  Marlo Thomas

  New Year, New York, Squares

  "An Especially Happy New Year" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2013.

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• As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

  Steve Vai

  Mean, Thinking, Purple

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

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• You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

  Johnny Vegas

  Want, Bigs, Wells

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• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  J. C. Watts

  Football, Strong, Team

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• Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

  Arthur Smith

  Listening, Radio, Miserable

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• My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.

  Chris Rock

  Mtv, Goal, Host

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 16, 2011.

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• I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Interview conducted in advance of Terry Pratchett's National Book Festival appearance in Washington, D.C., www.epicreads.com. September 29, 2007.

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• It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

  Robert Plant

  Land, Achievement, Kind

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". "GQ" Interview, www.gq.com. November 6, 2011.

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• I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Real, Special

  "Dollywood Turns 25", www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

  Hank Azaria

  Winning, Honor, Arbitrary

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• To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician)... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries.

  Randy Sandke

  Country, Art, Yale

  Randy Sandke (2010). “Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz”, Scarecrow Pr

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• On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

  George Clooney

  Basketball, Doors, Play

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