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

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2014

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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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

  Zayn Malik

  Shopping, People, Realizing

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

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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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• We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Victory, Way, Bus

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• This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

  Hadley Freeman

  Smart, Successful, Pockets

  "How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.

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• As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

  Ken Jennings

  Winning, Night, Trying

  "Jeopardy! Champ Ken Jennings". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

  Erwin Rommel

  Air, Adoption, Suffering

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• Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed," he says. "Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Good Luck, Odds

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• New Rule: Stop asking Miss USA contestants if they believe in evolution. It’s not their field. It’s like asking Stephen Hawking if he believes in hair scrunchies. Here’s what they know about: spray tans, fake boobs and baton twirling. Here’s what they don’t know about: everything else. If I cared about the uninformed opinions of some ditsy beauty queen, I’d join the Tea Party.

  Bill Maher

  Queens, Party, Believe

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• Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and slices the bread. Peeta keeps all of us in fresh baked goods. I hunt. He bakes. Haymitch drinks. We have our own ways to stay busy, to keep thought of our time as contestants in the Hunger Games at bay.

  Suzanne Collins

  Knives, Games, White

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