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• In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

  Miles Davis

  School, Eye, Boys

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• I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

  Bill Nighy

  Meaningful, Real, Thinking

  "Watching the Golden Globes". www.slate.com. January 16, 2007.

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• She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Dog, Ugly, Firsts

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• Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

  Nicki Minaj

  Mean, Alive, Life Is

  Song: Moment For Life, Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite moving for the whole family of course.

  Jean Tirole

  Daughter, Mother, Moving

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• I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.

  Gertrude Stein

  Struggle, Mean, Elements

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• A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  "The Wisdom of Jean-Paul Sartre: A Selection".

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• I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.

  Donald Trump

  Winter, Snow, Records

  "Trump cool to global warning". pagesix.com. February 14, 2010.

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• I don't value prizes of any sort.

  David Hockney

  Values

  "David Hockney joins Order of Merit" by Robert Booth, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2012.

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• Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.

  Terry Rossio

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Would Be

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• In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.

  Hiro Fujiwara

  Kissing, Giving, Receiving

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• I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.

  Christopher A. Sims

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Thanksgiving, Daughter, Mother

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• To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Two, Use, May

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by James Boswell, 1791.

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• It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.

  Joan Didion

  Love, Dream, Men

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• The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.

  George Washington

  Real, Home, Government

  George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.7

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• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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• Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want to make your move before the opponent does, because the first person to stomp from the room receives valuable Argument Points that can be redeemed for exciting merchandise at the Marital Prize Redemption Center.

  Dave Barry

  Moving, Funny Marriage, Doe

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.208, Crown Archetype

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• Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Success, Mother, Home

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• Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than the less tidy task of observing the world and trying to make sense of it. This, after all, is done by mere historians, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and (heaven forbid) even journalists. Economists are loath to admit that they belong in such raffish company.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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• The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Winning, Long

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

  Spike Lee

  Women, Want, Figures

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• The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

  Trey Gowdy

  Badass, Thinking, President

  "Rep. Gowdy: Paper applications for ObamaCare are a 'facade'". www.foxnews.com. November 04, 2013.

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