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I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
In a way, I think Sae-byeok lived her life to the fullest, so her desperate need to win was different from the… — HoYeon Jung Copy Share Image
I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
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What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We have a greedy cycle where Human Rights Commissions fine citizens in order to pay their own salaries so they can employ… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a… — Laozi Copy Share Image
ONLY in the release of the seen do you lay hold on the unseen, My little one. Heaven waits for those who… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait,… — John Gay Copy Share Image
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When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
![“The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the…” quote by Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f3/arundhati-roy-346_activism_the-booker-prize-was-actually-responsibl_634250.jpg)
