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«My feelings are he [Yevgeny Kafelnikov] should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.»
«I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.»
«It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.»
«I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.»
«I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards, but when I was notified that I had won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Mr de Klerk, I was deeply moved. The Nobel Peace P»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Confidence
| Keywords:
awards, cared, fighter, freedom fighter, jointly, Nobel, Nobel Peace, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel prize, notify, prize, prizes
«Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dukedom, furnished, furnished with, furnishing, library, mine, prize, prizing, volumes
«It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
Nobel, Nobel prize, prize, thaw, thawed