Honorary Quotes

• People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

  Neil Simon

  Awards, People, Mechanic

  New York Times, June 4, 1984.

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• I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare.

  Rick Mercer

  Travel, Real, Impact

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• The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 07, 2010

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• You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

  Neil Simon

  Graduation, School, People

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• The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

  Johan Huizinga

  Music, Sports, Fashion

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• I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Kentucky, Louisiana, Mayors

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• I have actually five honorary degrees.

  Katherine Dunham

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

  Karel Capek

  Victory, Literature, Ants

  "'And so ad infinitum (The Life of the Insects) : An Entomological Review in Three Acts, a Prologue and an Epilogue " by Karel Capek, Josef Capek, (p. 60), 1936.

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• There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Reality, Pliers

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 25, 2014

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• I hope through The L Word to become an honorary member of the gay tribe. I cherish the thought that some young girl or woman somewhere may one night turn on the television and for the first time ever see her life represented - not as an isolated incident but as a multiplicity. Her overwhelming fear may have been that she might never find her tribe, she might never find love and now she knows that they are both out there waiting for her.

  Jennifer Beals

  Girl, Gay, Night

  Speech at L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Women's Night, April 17, 2004.

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• Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Book

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• A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

  Max Horkheimer

  Careers, Interesting, Doe

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• Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

  Dolly Parton

  Believe, Degrees, Tennessee

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• There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Athlete, Golf, Men

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• I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Nice

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• Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

  Andrew Schneider

  Life, Military, Sight

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• Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.

  N.D. Wilson

  Kings, Book, Ideas

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• I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

  Nathan Lane

  People, Catholic, Church

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

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• I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the colleges with these kids for lectures, as an honorary professor or whatever, and this Chinese girl I like very much who I give the award to says to me, "You don't know how much you inspired me to do shoes." And I'm glad that I convey that kind of desire to people when they see my bloody shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Kids, College

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.

  Branch Rickey

  School, Doctors, Law

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

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• I had no idea that such a thing could happen. It never occurred to me.My son told me. He called me and said, "Darling, I just wanted you to know that you have been chosen to receive an honorary Academy Award." I was in the back of this car, and I said, "Oh," and burst into tears, of course, because it was so unexpected and quite wonderful. I thought it's been worth hanging around all these years.

  Angela Lansbury

  Son, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

  Brian Blessed

  Two, Climbing, Scotland

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• Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Quitting, Members

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• What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Thinking, Littles, Professors

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• I`ve been all over the world - honorary knighthood .

  Hillary Clinton

  World, Knighthood

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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