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• John Kerry was the big winner in Iowa. Ted Kennedy introduced Kerry as the 'comeback kid.' That used to be Bill Clinton's name - because every time he would come back to a city, he would find out if he had a kid or not.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Iowa, Cities

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• I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

  John Burdett

  Thinking, Average, Paris

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• I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.

  Joe Torre

  Winning, Feelings, Trying

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• The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.

  Nigel Benn

  Hate, Men, Balls

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• There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Winning, Common, Loser

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• It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Technology, Games

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.

  Herman Melville

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Winning

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• I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

  Summer Sanders

  Teaching, Fall, Kids

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• For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Nature, Turkeys

  "Obama pardons two Thanksgiving turkeys with mercy and humour" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2012.

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• In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.

  Chris Evert

  Happiness, Winning, Tennis

  "I've Lived A Charmed Life". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

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• Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

  Kathy Whitworth

  Golf, Games, Missing

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• In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.71, Penguin

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• People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Book, Mean, Years

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• You are always a winner. Sometimes you win, sometimes you make others win.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Winning, Sometimes

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• The only thing holding you back is you. Commit to developing the mindset of a winner, set your goals and chase them down. Remember, a dog in the hunt ain't got no fleas!

  Andy Albright

  Dog, Goal, Fleas

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• Perhaps the most important rule is to hold on to your winners and cut your losers. Both are equally important. If you don’t stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.

  Michael Marcus

  Cutting, Important, Pay

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• Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach.

  Michael Marcus

  Cutting, Loss, Long

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• The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Winning, Inspire, Secret

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• I only see what I want to see. Winners see winning, Losers see losing. You are what you think you are.

  Moe Norman

  Winning, Thinking, Want

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• All the major networks declared Barack Obama the winner at 11 last night, except for MSNBC, which declared Obama the winner six months ago.

  Conan O'Brien

  Night, Six Months, Lasts

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• And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

  Sam Donaldson

  Military, School, Suits You

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• If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

  George Clooney

  Rooms, Brass, Rings

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• It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.

  Doyle Brunson

  Cards, Loser

  "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story". Interview with Nolan Dalla, www.pokerschoolonline.com. May, 2003.

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• The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Omission, Hands, Champion

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• Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

  Bobby Fischer

  Thinking, World, Chess

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