Nobel Quotes - Page 13

• I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.

  Leonard Cohen

  Mountain, Receiving, Bob

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• To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil liberties and human rights and international law and then talking about peace to young people. That's a double standard.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Talking, Law

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Jew, Percent

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have gotten them for scientific work is exceedingly low. But in Jews, it is exceedingly high.

  Richard Dawkins

  Numbers, Gone, Lows

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Army, Years, Bars

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything to today's discussion are the insights into the Biblical texts that are contained in his lectures and books. They include Messengers of God [1976], Five Biblical Portraits [1978] and his just-published Wise Men and Their Tales - Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic Masters.

  Hershel Shanks

  Wise, Book, Biblical

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If I could get every single cancer genome sequence that has been sequenced; if I could ever put it in one repository, we have the capacity to do a million billion calculations per second. We'll be able to find out more in 10 minutes more than it would take 10 Nobel laureates 10 years to find out about the patterns of cancer and the cures for cancer.

  Joe Biden

  Cancer, Years, Patterns

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel Prize to [Bob] Dylan because blurring the lines of song lyrics and also hip-hop for me is like some of the greatest uses - most innovative uses of language in my lifetime.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.npr.org

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