Awards Quotes - Page 8

• Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Albums, Hector

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• I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

  Rita Dove

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.

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• The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

  Helen Hunt

  Earthquakes, Oscars, Desks

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• That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

  Janet Jackson

  Dream, Winning, Play

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• How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

  Naveen Jain

  Ideas, Giving, Important

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• I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Want, Hunger, Hungry

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• I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

  Nicole Kidman

  Glasses, World, Kind

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• Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Jobs, Winning, Men

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• I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Stars, Important

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• I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

  Queen Latifah

  Soul, Host, Hell

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• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  Queen Latifah

  Hip Hop, Males, Female

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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, and I can answer without batting an eye: No. Accomplishments, applause, awards and fortune are rewards that often come as the result of hard work and a determined spirit, but there is something bigger. Something better. Something that will outlast the winningest season, the plushest corner office, the heftiest bonus and the loudest cheers. That something can only be found when we look beyond the final score.

  Tom Osborne

  Cheer, Blessed, Hard Work

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• Any chick that I handle, I teach ‘em patience. How not to win the award but be glad for your nomination.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Winning, Ems, Nominations

  Song: Extra Extra Credit, Album: Flight School, 2009

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• Me and a mate picked up two darling birds and they took us back to their flat. I went into the bedroom with my bird and she started getting undressed. I was that drunk I was standing there wondering how to get undressed without letting go of the award. I went to sit on the bed, missed it by four feet and ended up lying on the floor. I remember the bird looking down at me, and saying, ‘Some player of the year.’ Then I fell asleep. I woke up still clutching my award and staggered out of the flat. I hadn’t a bloody clue where I was.

  George Best

  Letting Go, Lying, Player

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• Sorry to take your award, Faith ... Everybody knows that it's really not about the numbers and the chart positions and the sales and all that stuff, it's about relationships and my two best friends are at home ... I know you're as excited as I am.

  Martie Maguire

  Sorry, Home, Two Best Friends

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• Its a real honor to be included among the list of finalists, when you see the names that are there, ... Some of the guys who won the Hank Aaron Award in the past are thought of as some of the best players in the history of the game, so just to be included with those guys is really gratifying.

  Mark Teixeira

  Real, Past, Player

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• My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up and put his arm around me. I think it was like, 'Either way, mom, I still love you.' But then it was funny because I saw it. I saw my picture, and I heard them announce it, but I had to ask him, 'Did I really see that?' I wasn't sure I was seeing it, but he assured me that yes, I was nominated for the Academy Award. We just sort of cried a little bit.

  June Squibb

  Mom, Love You, Son

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• I don't know how many more of these awards I can come up for because I think a little bit is coming out of my pants right now.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Acting

  "The 2009 MTV Movie Awards – The winners, the losers, the magic". uproxx.com. May 31, 2009.

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• Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.

  Sherry Lansing

  Successful, Afterlife, Giants

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

  Burt Reynolds

  Hollywood, Idiot

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Tchaikovsky, People

  "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.

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• I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.

  Groucho Marx

  Sex, Government, Iowa

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• It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.

  Terry Rossio

  Past, Long, Achievement

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• I would like to thank ABC for giving me the Drew Carey award. It only goes to one lucky guy with glasses a year, and gosh darn it, tonight I'm the king of the... general area.

  Greg Proops

  Kings, Glasses, Years

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• On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Honor, Guests

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