Winning Quotes - Page 36

• But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Reality, Thinking, Priorities

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• First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

  Jim DeMint

  Wall, Firsts, Vote

  "DeMint Weighs In". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

  Jacques Derrida

  Looks, Surprise, Moments

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• I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Law, Justice, Acting

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• From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Sweet, Thinking, People

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• You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

  Annie Dillard

  Jealous, Thinking, Vision

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• People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivation, People, Important

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• I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.

  Mike Ditka

  Past, Goal, Get Better

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• Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

  Larry Dixon

  Team, People, Goal

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• I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

  Novak Djokovic

  Today

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• I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

  Snoop Dogg

  Teaching, Kids, Men

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

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• He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

  Henry Drummond

  Life, Names, Lasting Love

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• I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

  Kevin Durant

  Team, Player, Games

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

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• But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Determination, Race, Trying

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• But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Awards, Important

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• The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Heart, Profound

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• All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Men, Issues

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.warrenfarrell.org.

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• I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

  Brett Favre

  Inspirational, Team, Men

  "Brett Favre: First And Ten". IGN interview, www.ign.com. November 29, 2004.

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• You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

  Roger Federer

  Sports, Play, Tennis

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• Oh, my God, I don't think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.

  Roger Federer

  Thinking, Player, Games

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• The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

  Paul Feig

  Mean, Awards, Stories

  "'Bridesmaids' Director Paul Feig Reveals How Twitter Saved His Movie and Why Awards Matter (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

  Allyson Felix

  Sports, Looks, Athens

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• Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Believe, Thinking

  "This time it's for Rio". Interview with Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.

  Craig Ferguson

  Winner, Truth Is, Approach

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• Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.

  Ron Fournier

  May, Influential, Clinton

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