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• To mark the 0-year anniversary of 9/, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund.

  Mark Sanchez

  Anniversary, New York, Children

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• That's beautiful,' Valkyrie said, looking at it. Isn't it? This necklace has cost two very fine men their lives. At times, I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt.

  Derek Landy

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Men

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• I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now comes this fine meditation on his experience of coming to poetry, of making the poem and the months surrounding its making-a testament to the strength and significance of poetry in American culture, something not always seen or easily measured. Today Is For All of Us, One Today is a necessary intervention into the ongoing conversation about the role of poetry in public life.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Reading, Diversity, Meditation

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• The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South Wales that does not pay them a heavy tribute. They are the real owners of the antipodean continent. What is the good of our being a wealthy nation, if the wealth is all in the hands of German Jews?

  Will Hughes

  Running, Real, Taken

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• One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

  Ted Harrison

  Art, Children, Work

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• What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

  Bob Dole

  War, Hero, Self Worth

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• At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time

  Gregg Allman

  Song, Real, Guitar

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• Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.

  Michael Parenti

  Military, Land, Culture

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• Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

  Thomas Gray

  Passing, Sigh, Passings

  Alexander Pope, Mr. Jerningham (Edward), Thomas Gray, Helen Maria Williams, Thomas Percy (1796). “Poems, moral, elegant and pathetic:: viz. Essay on man, by Pope; The monk of La Trappe, by Jerningham; The grave, by Blair; An elegy in a country churchyard, by Gray; The hermit of Warkworth, by Percy; and original sonnets, by Helen Maria Williams”, p.148

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• Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Country, War, Government

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• It's a lovely tribute and fun to read.

  Howell Raines

  Fun, Lovely

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• Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Character, People, Achievement

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

  Dr. John

  New Orleans, Guitar, Piano

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• Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

  George W. Bush

  Loyalty, Men, Years

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• I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.

  Doris Day

  Country, Grateful, Cincinnati Ohio

  Doris Day (2013). “The Doris Day Songbook”, p.1929, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.

  Russell Brand

  Jobs, Memories, Iphone

  Russell Brand @rustyrockets, twitter.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from her own side of the House.

  Simon Hoggart

  House, Lucky, Toffee

  "Lady Thatcher tribute: MPs serve up a gigantic sticky toffee pudding" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

  Quincy Jones

  Needs, Records

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• We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Kings, Would Be, Answers

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• Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

  Marty Meehan

  Lying, Years, Remembrance

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• One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

  Tom Peters

  Lovely, Pay, Humans

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• We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Teammate, Quiet

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• Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Heart, People

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.45, e-artnow

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• If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

  Michael Kinsley

  Hypocrisy, Vices, Pay

  Michael Kinsley (2008). “Please Don't Remain Calm: Provocations and Commentaries”, p.194, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Commenting on playoffs to determine a national champion: I'm not in favor of 15 games either. I think that's way too much football. The thing that I feel good about is that these guys hung together through 15 games and played hard every week. That's a marvelous tribute to the kids. We just hung in there today and kept playing. It's just been a special feeling all year long.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Children, Kids

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