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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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"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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"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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"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 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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"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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"What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?"
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"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
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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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"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."
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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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"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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"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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"People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word."
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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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"Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already."
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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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"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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"Measure your success by the number of people who envy you."
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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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"We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done."
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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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"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."
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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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"The world will never know you because you did not work hard enough."
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"When you develop your gift, you will be well known."
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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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"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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"But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier."
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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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"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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"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
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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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"An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace."
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"Recognize yourself as a person who has received a precious gift from your creator."
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"She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was."
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"The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer."
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"A man's rivals tell you how great he is."
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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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"One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word."
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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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"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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"Your work may not be noticed by people, but there is One Who sees everything you are doing."
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"Don't worry about getting credit, do the work anyway."
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"But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed."
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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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"We only see God when we see people."
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