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So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
- Roberta Flack
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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
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The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.
- Antonio Munoz Molina
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There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.
- Antonio Munoz Molina
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I still remember playing my first Challenger tournament in Hong Kong in 1990, and the prize fund was $50,000.
- Tim Henman
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President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace.
- Moon Jae-in
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Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
- Tom Lehrer
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It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
- Alfred Nobel
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Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
- Jonathan Raymond
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With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.
- Simon Kuznets
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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
- Betty Williams
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I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.
- Christopher A. Sims
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.
- Marcel Carne
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The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
- Philip Warren Anderson
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The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
- Philip Warren Anderson
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The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
- Philip Warren Anderson
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I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.
- Tim Hunt
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I don't have any clue about the criteria, how the Nobel committee selects an individual for the prize.
- Abiy Ahmed
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It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.
- Deborah Eisenberg
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'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.
- Charles J. Shields
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I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
- Teddy Sears
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The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
- Robert Scheer
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Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
- Ken Auletta
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People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
- Billy Childish
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My band did the Teenage Fair battle of the bands - problem was we were 11 years old! They gave us a prize for youngest band ever.
- Steve Lukather
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I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
- Billy Bob Thornton
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A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
- Joshua Lederberg
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
- Barry Marshall
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It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.
- Gunter Blobel
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
- Bobby Rahal
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When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.
- Ian Rankin
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I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes.
- Terence Tao
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I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.
- Dario Fo
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I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.
- Tony Bradman
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The real prize is finding something new out there.
- Vera Rubin
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I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.
- Jane McGonigal
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I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
- Dick Van Patten
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Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.
- Ethan Coen
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Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.
- Andre Geim
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There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.
- Michael Nesmith
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Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
- Jonathan Mayhew
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I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
- Bill McCartney
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Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
- Phil Donahue
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I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.
- Matt McGorry
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
- Os Guinness
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I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.
- Bruce Beutler
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I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.
- Frederick Banting
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If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.
- Jairam Ramesh
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As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.
- Joe Kaeser
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I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
- Omar Bongo
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Najib Razak
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With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
- Todd Haynes
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Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Tom Lehrer
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Tennis is not a contract sport and we really rely on the WTA and ATP tours to be up and running so players can earn prize money to make a living.
- Bethanie Mattek-Sands
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
- Abraham Whipple
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The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.
- Luis Federico Leloir
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You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal.
- Eric Holder
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There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.
- Ivar Giaever
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.
- Stephen Hawking
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No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
- Stephen Hawking
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
- H. L. Mencken
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We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
- Tommy Chong
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Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
- Glenn Beck
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My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.
- Ernie Banks
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If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
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Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
- Gene Tunney
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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The Web is not a prize to be won, and Mr. Ballmer's attitude is deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers, and - to put it into Microsoft parlance - customers.
- Molly Holzschlag
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Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
- Cecil Rhodes
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Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my area.
- Wolfgang Ketterle
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- Thomas Carlyle
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I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.
- Richard P. Feynman
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If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
- Richard P. Feynman
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.
- Elie Wiesel
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Everybody runs, but only one wins first prize. So, run your race in such a way as to win.
- Dabo Swinney
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
- Robert Hughes
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