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“I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?”

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Alan Arkin is an American actor renowned for his performances in film and television. Born on March 26, 1934, he has had a career spanning over half a century, during which he has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award. more

“I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.”

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Author:Alan Arkin

“If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.”

Ifs Different Would Be Company Design Type Creating Competition Available Variety Consumers Expensive Electric Outlets Plugs Appliances

Author:Bill Gates

“In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.”

Years Humans Wells Long Running Competition Long Runs Education System Indicators

Author:Bill Gates

“I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.”

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Author:Michael Angarano

“For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad.”

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Author:Lemon Andersen

“You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.”

Age School Students Periods Competition Series Driving Qualifying

Author:Mario Andretti

“The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.”

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Author:Parker J. Palmer

“We're forever focusing upon our differences, and never noticing how much we're all alike.”

Differences Forever Noticing

Author:Dean Frazer

“The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.”

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Author:Ron Smothermon

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