Awards Quotes - Page 29

• I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.

  Jack White

  Art, Moving, Blue

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• I know my own truth. I'm in a great relationship with a woman. Maybe before it used to bother me. Then I was like, ‘This is so stupid that this bothers me. Some of my best friends in the world are gay, and if this is bothering me, then that means I have an issue with that.’ Once I figured that out for myself, I thought, ‘I don't care what anyone thinks about me.’ That's why I think I've become an ally for the gay and lesbian community. I just got [an Ally for Equality Award] the other day in Atlanta. I've very proud of my role in the community. So say what you will.

  Matthew Morrison

  Stupid, Mean, Gay

  "Matthew Morrison Opens Up About His Sexuality, Glee and Going Back to Where It All Began". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2013.

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• It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Winning, Special, Matter

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

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• Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing.

  Stephen Elop

  Successful, Winning, Engineering

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• The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

  Teju Cole

  Morning, Mean, Emotional

  Teju Cole @tejucole, twitter.com. March 8, 2012.

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• An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Mean, Responsibility, Winning

  "I am not a competitive person: Shreya Ghoshal". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Wife, House

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• As a city powered by our country's knowledge economy, Toronto will continue to benefit from developing, attracting and retaining the world's most promising young researchers at the University of Toronto. Our government will continue to invest in research awards that lead to long-term social and economic benefits for Canadians.

  Peter Van Loan

  Country, Cities, Government

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• We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics and chemistry, where a prize shared among three with divergent views would be an embarrassing mistake or a bad joke. While a Nobel Prize might well be the culmination of a life’s work, shouldn’t the work accurately describe the real world?

  Seth Klarman

  Real, Mistake, Views

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• I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Fun, Ordinary, Limos

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

  Julie Dillon

  Art, Long, Decision

  Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com

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• It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.

  Viola Davis

  Opportunity, Important, Would Be

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.

  Satyajit Ray

  Motivational, Judgement, Half

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• Being champion is just priceless. I'm not trying to sound arrogant or anything but being Olympic champ, you have every country coming together and competing. Doing what they do best, getting awards, money. Coming together and competing in the most competitive way possible with the best from all these different countries on Earth and winning. To me that's priceless.

  Henry Cejudo

  Country, Winning, Champion

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• I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

  Marco Pierre White

  Events, Charity, Dinner

  "Interrogation: Marco Pierre White". www.mirror.co.uk. February 3, 2012.

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• At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• The only award I've been nominated for is a Scottish BAFTA. A Scottish BAFTA, it's like hearing that the animals have their own Olympics. You hear all this stuff about TV being faked. Of course it's faked. It's all faked. That documentary a couple of weeks ago about tribal warfare among monkeys, that was all filmed in a Yates wine lodge in Dundee. Comic Relief is faked. Everybody in Africa is fine.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Rip, Humor

  "Kids Choose Green Day as Favorite Band". www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2006.

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• Leaders encourage others to continue the quest and inspire others through courage and hope. Leaders give heart by visibly recognizing others' contributions to the common vision. With a thank you note, a smile, an award, and public praise, the leader lets others know how much they mean to the organization.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Mean, Heart

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

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• I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

  Al Pacino

  Winning, Made, Feels

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

  Arthur Smith

  Gigs, Not Worth It, Knows

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• Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

  Charles Ives

  Mediocrity, Badges

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• An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers engaged in perpetual circulation wars. He became grist for their mills, and his wars with the sportswriters brought out the worst in him, and cost him. He won two Most Valuable Player Awards and finished second four times. Several of those times he would have won had he not had such poisonous relations with the voting press.

  George Will

  Morning, War, Player

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• I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.

  Paul Haggis

  People, Risk, Cameras

  "The Oscars, minute by minute" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2006.

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• Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

  Shirley Knight

  Giving, Acting, Hollywood

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