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• I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any
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  Edith Head

  Stars, Mirrors, White

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• I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.

  Ashton Eaton

  Running, Kids, Ice Cream

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• The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

  Heath Ledger

  Sports, Running, Race

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• I've won not just in MMA but also for the US and let me tell you, the US Greco Roman wrestler is never the guy that's the favorite, not overseas. I'm used to going into hostile countries and competing against the number one guy in their country instead of the number one guy in Chicago.

  Joe Warren

  Country, Mma, Numbers

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• When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

  Brian Tracy

  Moving, Competition, Excellence

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• You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Views, Painful Experiences, White

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Moving, White, House

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.

  Eric Foner

  Religious, Thinking, Church

  "Life Is Getting More Difficult for Americans". Interview with Karen Andresen and Cordula Meyer, www.spiegel.de. October 30, 2008.

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• Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

  David Boudia

  Fall, Perspective, Trying

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. 2012.

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• The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Challenges, Members

  "Lecture 13: How To Be A Great Founder". genius.com.

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• Determination is number one! You have to be trained physically. You have to have a good mental attitude - wanting it and enjoying the thrill of going fast. There is a certain level of aggression with competing at professional racing level but you have to control it as it is a high reaction, fast sport.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Determination, Attitude

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, May, Dinner

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Thinking, Games, Challenges

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• When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.

  Aaron Zigman

  Winning, Play, Tennis

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• There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.

  Aaron Zigman

  Numbers, Tennis, Competition

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• We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

  Richard M. Daley

  Travel, Airports, Needs

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• That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli. This is literally a monopoly.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Competition, Innovation, Monopoly

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm pro-life. The law protects women's right to chose, and I think there's a competing right, which is the rights of the unborn. And as you get closer to term, I think the rights of the unborn become more and more prevalent.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Rights, Law

  "SKIMM YOUR CANDIDATE: Fmr. Gov. Jeb Bush (FL), Republican". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2015.

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• I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in.

  James Mercer

  Girl, Football, School

  "James Mercer of The Shins". Interview with Marc Hawthorne, music.avclub.com. February 9, 2007.

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• If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

  Michael Schumacher

  Winning, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

  Larry Ellison

  Insane, Would Be, Good Enough

  Transcript: FT interview with Larry Ellison, www.ft.com. April 18, 2006.

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• Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, World, Process

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• The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Latin, Mean, People

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.233, Basic Books

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• Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

  Richard Cornuelle

  Government, Leader, Competition

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• Different types of sex work are differently supportive. If I were working in a strip club, I would be competing with my colleagues, and while there would be support, there would be financial motivation not to offer too much support.

  Molly Crabapple

  Sex, Motivation, Support

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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