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• I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

  Coco Lee

  Singing, My Sister

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• The Bible indicates that for three days, Jesus went into the very depths of hell. Right into the enemy's own territory. And He did battle with Satan face to face. Can you imagine what a show down that was? It was good vs. evil. Right vs. wrong. Holiness vs. filth. Here are the two most powerful forces in the universe have come together to do battle for the first time in history. But thank God. The Bible says, "Satan was no match for our Champion". This was no contest.

  Joel Osteen

  Jesus, Powerful, Two

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• It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, War, Fighting

  Woodrow Wilson (1903). “A History of The American Poeple”

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• Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Years, Socialism, Capitalism

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• People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

  Emily Lazar

  People, Excellence, Complaining

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I had my first electric, a Silvertone with the amp built into the case, and I won first prize.

  Tommy Shaw

  School, Juniors, Cafeteria

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• What you ride and how you choose to ride is such a dynamic part of what this contest [ Ultra Natural] is built for.

  Travis Rice

  Natural, Ultras, You Choose

  Source: snowboarding.transworld.net

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• I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and report what they witness. That's their job as artists, you're looking for the rub, where's the rub, you're a storyteller, you're looking for the rub, not necessarily the solutions, or you're not necessarily educated, you're not the winner of a debate contest, a national debate contest, you're not necessarily a person who has a doctorate in anything.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: voidau.com

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• I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.

  Gertrude Stein

  Struggle, Mean, Elements

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• I'm not here to win a popularity contest. I'm here to work and have a career. Let the haters hate. I'm ready for the criticism.

  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Hate, Winning, Careers

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

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• Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

  Buster Keaton

  Friendly, Film, Subtitles

  Interview with Studs Terkel, 1960.

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• In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More often than not, the insurance company that protects you against this type of lawsuit will settle it with cash and contest it in a court of law.

  Errol Morris

  Blue, Law, Texas

  Source: collider.com

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• I would've said yes before I saw Aaron Gordon do what he did. And Zach LaVine went nuts as well. I think Gordon should've won for what he did. But what LaVine does is amazing. I don't know where he gets that bounce and that glide but it's incredible. I hope both those guys compete it in next year. Over the last years or so, I'd say the three-point contest has been more entertaining than the dunk contest, but this was really special this year.

  Steve Kerr

  Thinking, Years, Nuts

  "KNBR conversation: Steve Kerr". SFGate interview, www.sfgate.com. February 20, 2016.

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• Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Civilization, Territory

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• I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my eighth-grade yearbook when we moved, and I had listed "WRITER" as my future occupation. It's always been something I've been hungry to do, but I think the more practical side of me (encouraged by the more practical sides of my parents of course) shied away from pursuing a career in creative writing, in favor of something a little "safer" like law.

  Lee Kelly

  Writing, Yearbook, Thinking

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the failure to manage contraction. It requires a thoroughgoing reorganization of daily life. No political faction currently operating in the USA gets this. Hence, it is liable to be settled by a contest for dwindling resources and there are many ways in which this won't be pretty.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Usa, Political, Reorganization

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to become the next emperor. And this contest includes actually killing each other, doing anything they can get away with to each other.

  Garth Nix

  Empires, Next, Killing Each Other

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.

  Bette Ford

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Self Esteem, Swim

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.153, University of Georgia Press

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• I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

  Bam Margera

  Silly, Mtv, Giving

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• Focus on winning the contest with yourself.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Winning, Focus

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• Before Rocky III, I was minding my own business, there was a Tough Man contest. I won that contest two years in a row and I didn't win because I was the toughest, the roughest or the baddest. I won when I was training for the contest, I told my pastor "They're having a contest and when I win the contest I'm a give you the money so you can buy food and clothes for the less fortunate people in the community." That was what Mr. T was about, that was back in 1979. I didn't have a car then but that's what I'm about.

  Mr. T

  Winning, Men, Years

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders serve an important purpose, the real contest involves players on the field or on the court of life. We must not go through life acting only as enthusiastic cheerleaders available for hire; we must be anxiously and personally engaged.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Player, Important

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• A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.

  James Frey

  Winning, Names, Expansion

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• Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls

  Amy Tan

  Teenager, Soul, Sometimes

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.20, Penguin

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