Prize Quotes - Page 19

• One of the realities for women writers is that sometimes you'll start strong, but as you see people go up the ladder, working in their literary lives, getting prizes and awards and the better teaching gigs, women tend to sort of drop away.

  Erin Belieu

  Strong, Teaching, Reality

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, it is right in the midst of the major energy reserves in the world. Its been a primary goal of US policy since World War II to control what the State Department called "a stupendous source of strategic power" and one of the greatest material prizes in history.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Goal, Energy

  Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2006.

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• I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. It encourages our business to be competitive in absolutely the wrong way. We're not sportsmen; we're not trying to come in first.

  John Hurt

  Nice, Thinking, Giving

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Emotional, Two

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• Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have gotten them for scientific work is exceedingly low. But in Jews, it is exceedingly high.

  Richard Dawkins

  Numbers, Gone, Nobel

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

  Ken Auletta

  Teamwork, Independence, Journalist

  Ken Auletta, Terence Smith, John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy, University of Notre Dame (2005). “Whom do journalists work for?”

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• When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals and newspapers began to take an interest in what I had produced. This sudden Arab interest is a form of hypocrisy and nonsense.

  Hassan Blasim

  Hypocrisy, Stories, Festivals

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.

  Richard Flanagan

  Broken, Our Relationship, Ends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

  Richard Flanagan

  Book, Purpose, Discussion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you sold the most precious item for the cheapest price, as if you neither knew the value of the goods nor the meanness of the prize. Wait until you come on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Pain, Islamic, Loss

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• I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Style

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• In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?

  Chris Colfer

  Believe, Mean, Why Not

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• Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important in society or worth Pulitzer prizes as characters in literature.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Children, Character, Nuts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

  Sebastian Coe

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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• My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
  Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

  Colin Powell

  Mom, Cousin, New York

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• I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, War, Thinking

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Patriotic, Past

  Ezra Taft Benson (1986). “The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner”, Shadow Mountain

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• Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once again, are part of the context of life in the Arab world - anarchy, confusion, and corruption.

  Hassan Blasim

  Imagination, Confusion, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Ends, Whole Life, Shows

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• All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

  Richard Dawkins

  College, Age, World

  Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins, twitter.com. August 08, 2013.

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• Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Swimming, Prize Money, Safety

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• I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Religious, Distance, Ignorance

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.224, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

  Cesare Pavese

  Strong, Men, Giving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.58, Transaction Publishers

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• 

  Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky
  I know your fed up but you must try to survive
  Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by
  Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.

  Macklemore

  Rap, Eye, Sky

  Song: Hold Your Head Up, Album: The Language of My World, 2005

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• As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

  Newt Gingrich

  Names, White, America

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