Prize Quotes - Page 25

• We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

  Bill Gates

  Beach, Art, Sunset

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• When I got pregnant, I told [Susan Sarandon ]. She said, "All right. I'm gonna tell you the thing to do when you're giving birth: Push like you're trying to win a prize, like you want to be the best patient he's ever had. He's going to give you a prize for winning that." So I did. [The doctor] said, "You are probably the best pusher I've had as a patient."

  Geena Davis

  Winning, Doctors, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

  John Lewis

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Eye

  "All In With Chris Hayes, Transcript". www.msnbc.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That keeps his campaign alive. But Hillary Clinton won Louisiana, which was the big prize of the night, so she ended up winning more delegates than he did yesterday.

  Mara Liasson

  Winning, Night, Kansas

  "Rounding Up The Week In Politics". www-s4.npr.org. March 6, 2016.

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• My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.

  Kevin Allen

  Real, Boys, Grandfather

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Dream, Athlete, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, which believes that Black men are the principal threat to the women of the world.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Believe, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I had my first electric, a Silvertone with the amp built into the case, and I won first prize.

  Tommy Shaw

  School, Juniors, Cafeteria

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• I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Should Have, Economics, Nobel

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1974.

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• The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Economics, Individual

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1974.

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• The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist: Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992). A man of exceptionally broad knowledge and profound insight into the operation of complex systems, Hayek applied such insight with remarkable success to economics (Nobel Prize, 1974), sociology, political science, jurisprudence, evolutionary theory, psychology, and brain science (Hayek, 1952).

  Joaquin Fuster

  Memories, Men, Profound

  "Memory in the Cerebral Cortex: An Empirical Approach to Neural Networks in the Human and Nonhuman Primate". Book by Joaquin M. Fuster, 1995.

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• I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.

  Sylvia Beach

  Book, Thinking, Vocabulary

  Sylvia Beach (1991). “Shakespeare and Company”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• I stand here empty, waiting to b filled. I stand here weary of days bombarded with sorrows & ill. Yet, I STAND. For I know it is not of my strength; I know it is not my will. So with my eyes fixed on the prize and a rejoicing soul, I stand with a prayerful heart, waiting for my blessing. I stand, knowing my blessing will com.

  Shane Smith

  Motivational, Heart, Eye

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• I value science--none can prize it more,
  It gives ten thousand motives to adore:
  Be it religious, as it ought to be,
  The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

  Abraham Coles

  Religious, Heart, Science

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22

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• There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Children, Book, Around The World

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• Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Heaven, Triumph

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• To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician)... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries.

  Randy Sandke

  Country, Art, Yale

  Randy Sandke (2010). “Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz”, Scarecrow Pr

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• They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.

  Augustin Misago

  Scary, Catholic, Church

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• Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Football, Exercise, Fighting

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• Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

  Mort Sahl

  Country, War, Mean

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2011

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• People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the absence of cameramen acts might not be committed. Others felt that the mob was beyond appeal to mercy. They stayed and won Pulitzer Prizes. Were they right?

  Harold Evans

  People, Departed, Cameras

  Harold Evans (1978). “Editing and Design: Pictures on a page”

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• If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

  Joe Eszterhas

  California, Initiative, Nobel Peace Prize

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.

  Norm MacDonald

  Games, Dating, Shows

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• It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Years, People, Fundamentals

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• Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Memorial, Victory

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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