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• But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

  Usain Bolt

  Finals, Steps, Lanes

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

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• The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up the fundament of Gwyneth Paltrow or Jennifer Lopez.

  Julie Burchill

  Magazines, Endless, Jennifer

  "Unvarnished versus airbrushed". www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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• I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

  Michael Caine

  Forever, Actors, Testing

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Sports, Athletic, Athletics

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• The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

  Eric Cantona

  Team, Thinking, Long

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• Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

  Maria Cantwell

  People, Giving, Innovation

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• After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

  Russ Carnahan

  America, Design, Memorial

  Russ Carnahan's remarks at the United States House of Representatives (October 28, 2005), as quoted in "Congressional Record, Volume 151 - Part 18: October 27, 2005 to November 7, 2005 (Pages 23969 to 25296)" by Government Printing Office (p. 24193), 2010.

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• I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

  Amy Chua

  Hate, Play, Tennis

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• To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

  Pierre Corneille

  Beautiful, Country, Fate

  "Horace". Play by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene III), 1639.

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• When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

  Bill Cosby

  School, Students, Study

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• I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

  Kevin Costner

  Actors, Stealing, Scene

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• In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Writing, Cutting

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

  Jonathan Davis

  Thinking, Rocks, Scene

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• I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

  Idris Elba

  Journey, Long Ago, Ambitious

  FaceBook post by Idris Elba from Oct 19, 2012

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• If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Nba, Games

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

  Paul Farmer

  Want, Resources, Capacity

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

  Tim Ferriss

  Jobs, Mean, Entrepreneur

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• Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Religious, Positivity, Men

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• Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

  Al Franken

  Law, Competing, Antitrust

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue". Al Franken's speech to the American Bar Association Atnitrust Section, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

  Hayden Fry

  Team, Dollars, Towns

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• You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

  Marcus Garvey

  Lying, Men, White Man

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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• The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

  Seth Godin

  Requirements, Way, Path

  "Competition as a Crutch". Personal Blog, sethgodin.typepad.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Games, Achievement

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• As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.

  Naveen Jain

  Sports, Wise, Teamwork

  "Keeping Football Exciting While Reducing the Threat of Traumatic Head Injuries" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA.

  Shawn Johnson

  Team, Athlete, Opportunity

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