Contests Quotes - Page 14

• I'm really interested in revamping the Supernatural contest, so I'm going to put a lot of effort and energy into that going forward.

  Travis Rice

  Effort, Energy

  Source: www.outdoorjapan.com

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• I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Knowing, Beginners, Scarves

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• The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Competition, Energy, Available

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• When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

  Thomas Crum

  Winning, Mind, Trying

  Thomas F. Crum, Thomas Crum (1998). “The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I will support whoever is nominated and named by the party. I, at this time, don't plan to get involved in the contest and let it go forward. I had my own contest, it didn't result in victory, and I will let voters decide what will happen. But I will support the Republican candidate.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Support, Victory

  Source: www.univision.com

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• When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Queens, Names, Wife

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• I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win. I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Presidential, Challenges

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

  John Moody

  Country, Winning, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Political, Wish

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• When I was six I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.

  Nico Mirallegro

  Hair, Six, Talent

  "Why we are watching... Nico Mirallegro". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

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• I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I dont expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

  Angela Bettis

  Perfection, Get Better, Progress

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• Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Race, Profound

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

  Bryan Callen

  Letters, Pigeons, Messages

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• One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman "Miss Piggy." Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping," because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.

  Hillary Clinton

  Love Is, Names, Missing

  Source: time.com

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• I have a friend who actually told me that she'd rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she'll order a salad. If I order a salad, she'll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she'll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she's down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.

  Joy Behar

  Coffee, Thinking, Reality

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• It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw materials, international friction would be reduced. This would merely put a contest of force in the place of what can only metaphorically be called the "struggle" of competition and would transfer to powerful and armed states, subject to no superior law, the rivalries which between individuals had to be decided without recourse to force.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Powerful, Struggle, Law

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomen. To the same degree that I do not understand power, I do understand those who oppose power, who criticize power, who contest power, especially those who rebel against power imposed by brutality.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Power, Leader, President

  "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker, June 5, 2006.

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• The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Opportunity, Government, Definitions

  "Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.

  Violette Leduc

  Memories, Butterfly, Thinking

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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• There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

  Dean Smith

  Sitting, Sidelines

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• The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Baseball, Football, War

  "McCain Acts Like A Tough-Guy; We Need A Gentleman" by Jon Raymond, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

  Phyllis Diller

  Missing, Mouths, Lasts

  "Legendary Comic Phyllis Diller Dies at 95" by Duane Byrge, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 20, 2012.

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• To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Views, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1951). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 18 June, 1779 to 30 September, 1780”

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• I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.

  Donna Leon

  Book, Writing, Two

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