Contestants Quotes

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

Kathryn Budig

Inspirational, Yoga, People

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Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no contestant can have the whole pie.

Yossi Shain

Loyalty, Independent, Government

Yossi Shain (2010). “The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exiles in the Age of the Nation-State”, p.18, University of Michigan Press

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Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.

Susan Boyle

Dream, Queens, Singing

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There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous

Vanna White

People, Cameras, Nervous

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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

Salman Rushdie

Freedom, Struggle, Doe

Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

Joyce Giraud

Girl, Queens, Ambition

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I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

Michael Moore

Inspirational, Games, Islands

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They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't we just put all the contestants on 'Jeopardy!' and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.

Jay Leno

America, Missing, Way

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

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After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but I'm ready to whip these contestants into shape and the winner is sure to be from Team Burrell.

Anne Burrell

Team, Two, America

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In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

Zhuangzi

Confused, Skills, Differences

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I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because that's who I am.

Bristol Palin

Thinking, Who I Am, Outfits

"Bristol Palin Plans to Wear the 'Most Modest Outfits' on DWTS". people.com. August 31, 2010.

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I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.

Bo Bice

Song, Writing, Kids

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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

Naima Adedapo

Past, Idols, People

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It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Contests

Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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How about a new game show called 'Battle Begala?' Contestants would pick any obscure bad thing that happened anywhere in the world, and Paul would have 10 seconds to explain why it is President Bush's fault.

Ann Coulter

Games, Battle, President

"CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. August 5, 2002.

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I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.

Rob Mariano

Adventure, Reality, Transition

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People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh.

Alex Trebek

Senior, Years, People

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I had been taking various lessons. I've also had a lot of incredible singers give me a ton of great advice. From Cyndi Lauper, who kind of taught me the basics, and I've also worked with Bird. She's a tremendous coach and she often coaches the contestants on 'American Idol.' I've had a great amount of support.

Margaret Cho

Idols, Giving, Support

"Sing out, sister". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, dc.gopride.com. 2016.

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Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in its capacity of umpire is unavoidable, What must be kept in mind is that the greatest in of all is done when the umpire forgets that he too is bound by the rules, and begins to make them as between contestants in behalf of his own prejudices.

Felix Morley

Mean, Government, Umpires

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Ordering pizza and jamming out with the contestants in our hotels and traveling the country together brought me so much joy.

Rayvon Owen

Country, Joy, Together

Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 10, 2016.

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As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at performing and can relate to the hopes and aspirations of all the contestants, no matter how good or bad.

LeAnn Rimes

Stars, Hands, Trying

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After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

Felix Frankfurter

Election, States, Propensity

"First Iowa Hydro-Electric Cooperative v. Federal Power Commission (FPC), 328 U.S. 152". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 29, 1946.

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You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

Michael Ian Black

Games, Architecture, Cases

"Michael Ian Black on the many versions of 'himself'". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.

Kelly Link

Light, Hair, Doors

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In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

Gretchen Carlson

Mom, America, Giving

Source: frankviola.org

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