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Recognition Quotes
"A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results."
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"It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So it's not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds."
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"My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out."
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"There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized."
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"My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations."
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"I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system."
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"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."
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"I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones."
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"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
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"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."
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"I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything."
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"The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post."
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"Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?"
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"She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was."
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"An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream-in that particular month."
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"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
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"We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done."
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"Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated."
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"But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier."
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"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."
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"What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?"
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"When you develop your gift, you will be well known."
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"The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer."
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"She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere."
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"In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously."
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"Don't worry about getting credit, do the work anyway."
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"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
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"Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good."
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"Measure your success by the number of people who envy you."
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"The world will never know you because you did not work hard enough."
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"A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show."
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"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."
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"A man's rivals tell you how great he is."
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"Your work may not be noticed by people, but there is One Who sees everything you are doing."
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"God recognizes celebration."
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"An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace."
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"He who does propaganda for something will become famous about it, and if he remains incognito about it, he will become renowned. The value is for the renowned state and not for that of a famous state."
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"Poseidon raised his eyebrows as they shook hands. "Blowfish, did you say?"Ah, no. Blofis, actually."Oh, I see, Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish. I am Poseidon."Poseidon? That's an interesting name."Yes, I like it. I've gone by other names, but I do prefer Poseidon."Like the god of the sea."Very much like that, yes."
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"The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift."
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"Why the world remembers nothing of some certain people, the same world cannot forget some other people the reason is the difference in net worth they were able to build while on earth."
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"Recognize yourself as a person who has received a precious gift from your creator."
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"When I first heard your voice, my heart leapt in my chest as if it recognized you as its owner from another lifetime."
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"Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known."
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"But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed."
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"Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil."
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"Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea."
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"We only see God when we see people."
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"The problem is not that we don't recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don't want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it."
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