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If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.
The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.
I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.
I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
The dishwasher is the best invention in the world, I didn't grow up with one so it's my prize possession in the kitchen!
Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
I'm honored and humbled to win the Nobel Prize. I thank all my friends for the support and assistance throughout my life.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.
In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S.
One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.
I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
I won a prize for 'best sponge cake' at the Clacton Festival 2005. Having said that, I was only up against three other cakes.
I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never won any kind of prize.
I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.
I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
My band did the Teenage Fair battle of the bands - problem was we were 11 years old! They gave us a prize for youngest band ever.
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
On 'Love Island' you're trying to win the prize money and stay together; on 'The Bi Life,' the winner is the one that finds love.
I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.
Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.
If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.
I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working writer.
I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes.
A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.
Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.
Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.
When I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, I felt that this should go to all of the Hong Kong people who fight for democracy.
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.