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Competition Quotes
"Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves."
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"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish."
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"We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression."
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"But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?"
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"I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends."
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"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."
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"Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate."
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"Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?"
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"Today, the competition is considerably more intense."
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"Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world."
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"You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying."
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"While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points."
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"We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not."
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"I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it."
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"In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game."
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"At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won."
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"The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible."
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"That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances."
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"There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be."
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"I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing."
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"Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition."
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"Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition."
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"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
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"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you."
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"Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better."
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"Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition."
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"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."
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"The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in."
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"But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground."
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"I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent."
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"Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?"
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"I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition."
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"Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that."
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"I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that."
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"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style."
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"When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty."
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"Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition."
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"The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed."
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"Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one."
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"If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win."
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"There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private."
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"I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person."
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"It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result."
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"And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story."
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