Prize Quotes - Page 32

• The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Past, Men, Long

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• I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

  Ian Rankin

  Competition, Radio, Firsts

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much (sic) cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

  Brad Renfro

  Hurt, Party, Beer

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

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• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  Samantha Stosur

  Player, Prize Money, Australia

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

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• I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Children, Long, Giving

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• I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

  Rachel Johnson

  Summer, Jobs, Thinking

  Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

  Ree Drummond

  Running, Advertising, Ninety

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• As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

  Ree Drummond

  Feel Good, Get Better, Pioneers

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• Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.

  Peter Diamandis

  Opportunity, Space, Flying

  "Prof. Hawking Goes Weightless - The True Story" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Ideas, Mind, Literature

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• I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

  Kate Adie

  Modern Novel, Orange, Judging

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• The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Years, Nobel, Has Beens

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• The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Powerful, Commitment, Achievement

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

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• The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.

  Toni Morrison

  Zero, Taken, Writing

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• You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.

  Phil Ochs

  Inspirational, Victory, Can Do

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• Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

  Paul Simon

  Couple, Night, Winning

  Song: Lincoln Duncan, Album: Paul Simon

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• Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Dollars, Tonight

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• The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Quality, Noses

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• Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

  Hal Sparks

  Dream, Sorry, Reality

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• The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Process, Nobel, Complexes

  "Rita Levi-Montalcini obituary" by Anthony Tucker, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2012.

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• I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

  Arthur Balfour

  Winning, Important, Done

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• The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Giving, Rewards

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

  Zack Snyder

  Country, Brother, Book

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• One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

  Annalena McAfee

  Book, Leaving, Lists

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• Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

  Robert Henri

  Education, School, Winning

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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