Laureate Quotes
35 quotes by 30 authors
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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The…
— Maya Angelou
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Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in…
— Walter E. Williams
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Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].…
— Clifford Shull
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The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A scientist cannot do…
— Sune Bergstrom
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Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity,…
— Wole Soyinka
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About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in…
— Edward Abbey
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I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the…
— Wangari Maathai
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Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous…
— Rigoberto Gonzalez
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is…
— Rita Dove
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When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your…
— Linus Pauling
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A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
— William A. Henry III
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Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought…
— Richard Dawkins
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...They are wise to the ways of Wall Street - and...getting their fair share of the loot.(:)...from who will be the head of NIH, to…
— Edgar Berman
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My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland…
— John Krasinski
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I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to…
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
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I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have…
— Jane Goodall
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The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.
— Steven T. Katz
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How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Who Wrote These Laureate Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 35 Laureate Quotes, led by these top contributors: