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"I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward." »Garth Brooks
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"I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. (about the award ceremony, Atlanta Olympics)" »Matt Ghaffari
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"The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday's science fiction regarded as unspeakably dreadful has become today's award-winning research" »Theodore Roszak
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"Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." »Billy Madison
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"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." »Jack Benny
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"Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism." »Simms
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"Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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