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• Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.

  Pink

  Cute, Mtv, Skirts

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• Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

  Tom Jones

  Winning, Ideas, Relax

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• Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

  Charles M. Vest

  Pell Grants, Tuition, World

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, India, Care

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• Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

  Ivan Reitman

  Children, Years, Dumb

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• Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it everlasting. They focus on awards, achievements, and whatc an be done in their own strength while the Almighty desires to work trough their weakness.

  Chris Fabry

  Focus, Achievement, Desire

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• On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word about the book. Plus, this award was a plaque of some sort. I could have used that for all sorts of things. Obviously it would be useful for decorating the barren walls of my house and intimidating my enemies, but that's just for starters.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wall, Book, Winning

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• Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

  Steve Martin

  Mean, What Matters, Comedian

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Actors, Likes, Applause

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

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• Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Self Confidence, Depends

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• Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

  Sophie Thompson

  Jobs, People, Lovely

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• The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

  Danny Boyle

  Independent, Media, Giving

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.

  Vaclav Havel

  Betrayal, Scientist, Aspect

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• The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

  Harold Prince

  Expression, Perfect, Receiving

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• Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Might, Negative, Attention

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• There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

  Jodi Picoult

  Schism, Unwritten

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview With Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Play, Actors, Meaningless

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• I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things.

  Sam Bush

  Winning, Play, New Things

  Source: www.cincygroove.com

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• My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a steady rate of growth in the quantity of money. Fortunately for me personally, and for a select group of fellow economists, that conclusion has had no practical impact… else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honoured to receive.

  Milton Friedman

  Impact, Sweden, Study

  Milton Friedman's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1976.

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• No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Matter, Next

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• Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.

  Dave Gibbons

  Winning, Rope, Storytelling

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• For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Team, Accomplishment, Individual

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• When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

  Elizabeth Dole

  Differences, People, Made

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• I first met Taylor Swift at an awards show, which is a pretty easy place to suss out who is cool. Right off the bat I was like, This is a person I want to know. Just because she's a very famous person doesn't mean she doesn't exist outside of that space. She's wonderful and special and treats me really nicely and we have a great, mature relationship. She's on a short list of people like that for me.

  Jack Antonoff

  Mean, Space, People

  "I'm the Only Dude in a Girl Squad". www.elle.com. June 8, 2015.

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• Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best. You don't want to seek acclaim. You don't want to seek awards. You want to seek to do your best at what God's given you.

  Louie Giglio

  Musician, Want, Traders

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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