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Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Everybody runs, but only one wins first prize. So, run your race in such a way as to win.
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.
A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
You've got to keep your eye on the prize, always want more and never settle for what you have.
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.
I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.
You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal.
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.
I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.
Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.
There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.
It's always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you're glad when you get it.
To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop.
A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.
I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured
Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.
Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my area.
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
You go to tournaments to win and when you actually lift the prize, you feel tremendous pride and happiness.
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
The Nobel Prize is going to be 'fun money' - for an occasion, when my wife and I want a $50 bottle of wine.
I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
I still remember playing my first Challenger tournament in Hong Kong in 1990, and the prize fund was $50,000.
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
If I were to publicly give away my secrets, I'd be dumb. I am an intelligent woman who is focused on the prize.
I can't imagine life without my wife, but I don't think you should get a prize for staying together a long time.