Prize Quotes - Page 22

• That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high.

  Richard Dawkins

  College, Should Have, Numbers

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Towers, Week, Looming

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities.

  Catherine Camus

  Artist, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• [Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

  Catherine Camus

  Writing, Artist, Influence

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• The Senate is the big prize. Until recently, Democrats felt confident they could get the four seats they needed to take back control if [Hillary] Clinton is in the White House and Vice President Tim Kaine held the tie-breaking vote.

  Mara Liasson

  White, Ties, House

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?

  Robert Greene

  Latin, Greek, Degrees

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff [Man Booker Prize] very much. I think part of it is I can see myself wondering who's doing what and getting jealous, and none of that's healthy for me. So I just don't really.

  Paul Beatty

  Jealous, Men, Thinking

  "Paul Beatty: I See You". Interview With Chris Paul Wolfe, www.guernicamag.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

  Paul Beatty

  Men, He Man, Honored

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• I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.

  Leonard Cohen

  Mountain, Receiving, Bob

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• [ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.

  Sjon

  Political, Bob, Firsts

  Source: wwd.com

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• [Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.

  Sjon

  Bob, Tradition, Accepting

  Source: wwd.com

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• [I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is a category error, but that's not why. Not in itself. What bothers me is the perceived status of the categories. If pop lyricists were routinely considered for the prize as are authors and poets, I'd still think it mistaken, but I wouldn't much care. But I am quite certain that Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, for example, both at the very least Dylan's equals as writers, have never been in the running and never will be.

  David Bennun

  Running, Thinking, Views

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Evil, Forgiving, Form

  George Bernard Shaw (2008). “Pygmalion and Major Barbara”, p.10, Bantam Classics

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• Like I said, you guys in the media will treat the dumbest jack**s in the entire f***ng world like they won a Pulitzer prize for journalism and will put that level of weight on it, like they're an ambassador to some country we're trying to establish trade with.

  Bill Burr

  Country, Media, Guy

  Source: www.smudailycampus.com

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• The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women and diversity in all media, so TV, movies, eventually, digital, whatever you get into. That's the goal. We're using the same philosophy as my institute, which is to make it research-based and really try to work directly with filmmakers and content creators and move the needle. It's the only film festival in the world where the prizes are guaranteed distribution.

  Geena Davis

  Philosophy, Moving, Squares

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Happiness, Winning, Jewels

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• I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I'm one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology. And the other thing also which I'm hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Technology, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  People, Age, Use

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Buddhist, Kings, Book

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I know some people say "Keep your eyes on the prize," but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you're going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you've got to keep your eyes focused on the path.

  Russell Simmons

  Military, Eye, People

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.106, Penguin

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• It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare person who thinks, as a Buddha would, "I don't know if I've done enough, I don't know if I will do enough."

  Pico Iyer

  Men, Thinking, Rare Person

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Country, Rats, Winner

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• In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

  Leslie Banks

  Mom, Honesty, Home

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• The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie catacombs, mysterious ruins, and creepy castles that defy imagination. One part Indiana Jones, a handful of Swiss Family Robinson, and some Intergalactic excitement, the Quest for Truth is a riveting tale of just how far mankind will go for the ultimate prize.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Kids, Eerie, Imagination

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