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Competition Quotes
"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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"Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition."
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"I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition."
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"Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies."
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"One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition."
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"Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in."
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"I think we all have had better days in competition."
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"The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here."
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"Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up."
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"Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition."
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"I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?"
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"As a Republican, I am all for competition."
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"I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool."
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"In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on."
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"It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts."
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"I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition."
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"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
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"I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing."
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"They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers."
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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
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"So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license."
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"I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less."
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"Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit."
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"The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated."
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"Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful."
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"Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient."
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"Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well."
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"I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going."
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"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
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"Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses."
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"They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world."
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"They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove."
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"There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute."
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"There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation."
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"I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me."
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"Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary."
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"Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes."
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"We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition."
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"Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one."
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"Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations."
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"I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect."
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"Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all."
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"We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair."
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"The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there."
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"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
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"What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun."
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"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."
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