Awarded Quotes
68 quotes by 65 authors
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If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to…
— Ava Helen Pauling
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A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.
— Stephen Hawking
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On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil,…
— Max Perutz
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My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that…
— Tony Visconti
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Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier…
— Terry Rossio
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The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil…
— Walter Lippmann
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I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
— Joely Fisher
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Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF
— Anatoly Karpov
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I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For…
— Jung Chang
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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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It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that…
— Joe Baca
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I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.
— Sparky Anderson
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It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the…
— Wilhelm Ostwald
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When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George…
— Andrew Roberts
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You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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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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I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.
— David Millar
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists…
— James Keller
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It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob…
— Douglas Adams
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I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on local…
— Juan Somavia
Who Wrote These Awarded Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 68 Awarded Quotes, led by these top contributors: