Winning Quotes - Page 37

• I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

  Megan Fox

  Movie, Mean, Acting

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• I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for Ray, I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

  Jamie Foxx

  Thinking, Rays, Would Be

  "Oprah Talks to Jamie Foxx". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2005.

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• Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

  Virginia Foxx

  Moving, Believe, America

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• When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

  Al Franken

  Voice, Needs, Minnesota

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• We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

  Kinky Friedman

  Race, Firsts, Execution

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.

  Hayden Fry

  Realistic, Ifs

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• When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Eight, Talking, People

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• So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Fighting, Rights

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• We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Justice, Humanity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Wells, You Can Win, Ifs

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• In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Crazy, Athlete, Race

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• You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Sports, Hard Work, Commitment

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• You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Soccer, Country, World

  "Haile Gebrselassie bows to will of his people for one last hurrah". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Politics, Election

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• My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.

  Newt Gingrich

  Together We Can, President, Arguing

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• It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Brain, May

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• You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

  Al Gore

  Littles, Categories, Old Saying

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 26 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Team, Two, Super Bowl

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• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  Carla Gugino

  Sports, Black And White, Levels

  "Q&A: The 'Mighty' Fine Carla Gugino And David Boreanaz". Interview With Jenni Miller, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2011.

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• There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

  Gary Gygax

  Character, Games, Imagining Yourself

  "Gary Gygax, Game Pioneer, Dies at 69" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2008.

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• When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.

  Robert Griffin III

  Jobs, Mean, Games

  "Robert Griffin III talks video games, draft". Interview With Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. February 27, 2012.

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• My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

  Conrad Hall

  Mean, Differences, Peers

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• I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Artist, People, Style

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• When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Gold, Olympics

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• In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

  Alan Hansen

  Defense, Brazil, World

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