Awards Quotes
591 quotes by 495 authors
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last…
— Ian St John
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If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break…
— Erma Bombeck
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For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad taste, it's bad…
— Barack Obama
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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
— Annie Proulx
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Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can…
— Jenny McCarthy
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You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a…
— Harry Styles
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A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only…
— Gerald Asher
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For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me,
— Luise Rainer
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I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I…
— Pat Morita
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Give me a young man who has kept himself morally clean and has faithfully attended his church meetings. Give me a young man who has…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards…
— Jack White
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I know my own truth. I'm in a great relationship with a woman. Maybe before it used to bother me. Then I was like, ‘This…
— Matthew Morrison
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I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he…
— Thierry Henry
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I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's…
— William Peter Blatty
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Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.
— Henny Youngman
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Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these over the years,…
— Tom Osborne
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For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are…
— Busta Rhymes
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I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction…
— Chantal Kreviazuk
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I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an…
— John Pople
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Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out…
— Shane Claiborne
Who Wrote These Awards Quotes
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