Contestants Quotes - Page 2

• I'm going to tell my contestants: Be Bernie Sanders. Be the person people want and love.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, And Love, Want

  Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

  Hadley Freeman

  Smart, Successful, Pockets

  "How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.

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• When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

  Zayn Malik

  Shopping, People, Realizing

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

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• Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed," he says. "Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Good Luck, Odds

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• The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s pissed off? Why, I’m not sure, Bob, but I’m going to go with ‘Because I Left the Faucet Dripping.’ BEEP. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The correct answer is: ‘Because You Happen to Exist.’)

  Deb Caletti

  Sorry, Thinking, Games

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• New Rule: Stop asking Miss USA contestants if they believe in evolution. It’s not their field. It’s like asking Stephen Hawking if he believes in hair scrunchies. Here’s what they know about: spray tans, fake boobs and baton twirling. Here’s what they don’t know about: everything else. If I cared about the uninformed opinions of some ditsy beauty queen, I’d join the Tea Party.

  Bill Maher

  Queens, Party, Believe

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• I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Couple, Islands, Long

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• The panelists on To Tell The Truth, which is the one that I really knew, they cared about getting it right. They wanted to guess, you know? Although, when I was on as a contestant, the one time I was on as a contestant, apparently they had a rule, which was that when children were on, everybody would get a vote - and Kitty Carlisle voted for me.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Children, Vote, Telling The Truth

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My mother had me on four times on TV show 'To Tell The Truth'. Four times. Only once as a contestant, but they had a bunch of kids on at the beginning of some shows, playing with toys or things like that.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Mother, Kids, Tv Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign.

  Tom Bergeron

  Thinking, Consciousness, Loses

  "THR Emmy Roundtable: Randy Jackson, Gordon Ramsay and Other Reality Stars on Bad Contestants and Biggest Regrets". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt and Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 17, 2013.

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• It's an interesting thing, Top Chef. Some of the contestants will make you one great dish, and then make you something on the next show that will make you say, "Is that the same person?"

  Wolfgang Puck

  Interesting, Next, Chef

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Home, Empathy, Lines

  "The GQA: Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. November 30, 2011.

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• And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official light unto the world. Right down to the present day we have been the spectators of a foolish contest between equally vain and bigoted rivals.

  Hugh Nibley

  Jealous, Light, Issues

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• As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

  Ken Jennings

  Winning, Night, Trying

  "Jeopardy! Champ Ken Jennings". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and slices the bread. Peeta keeps all of us in fresh baked goods. I hunt. He bakes. Haymitch drinks. We have our own ways to stay busy, to keep thought of our time as contestants in the Hunger Games at bay.

  Suzanne Collins

  Knives, Games, White

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• We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Victory, Way, Bus

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• The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

  Erwin Rommel

  Air, Adoption, Suffering

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• When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.

  Alison Sweeney

  Soccer, Daughter, Mother

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• On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Dream, Stars

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• Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.

  Curtis Stone

  Healthy Habits, Inspire, Helping

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• Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Jobs, Giving, Criticism

  Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

  Bob Iger

  Reality, Would Be, Survivor

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• I never get bored, because there’s always different puzzles, I’m wearing different clothes, there’s different contestants, there’s different prizes.

  Vanna White

  Clothes, Bored, Different

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• My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.

  Alex Trebek

  Stars, Jobs, Nice

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• I've had people come up to me, as home viewers, and tell me they were screaming at the TV, yelling at each other, yelling at the contestants.

  Howie Mandel

  Home, Yelling, People

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