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“We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.”

Made Political Moral Bases Mathematical Winner

Author:Tom Hayden

“We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.”

Years Hard Humanity Millions Struggle Survival Winner Mentality

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I have a 10 year old boy and a 6 year old boy and the stuff that they watch, it's always... I mean, it could be because we're a funny family, but they love the humor and combining humor with space action, I mean, you know, there's a winner right there.”

Knows Years Mean Action Stuff Space Boys Watches Winner Combining Funny Family

Author:Rhys Darby

“Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.”

People Needs Country Games Hurt Millions Protect Baseball Winner Loser Baseball Games

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Remember all the times you were a winner; the times when you did something you were proud of, even small things. Hold these feelings close to you, this joy and confidence.”

Feelings Remember Joy Proud Winner Small Things

Book:Empowering Women: Every Woman's Guide to Successful Living

Source: Empowering Women: Every Woman's Guide to Successful Living

“We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.”

Needs War Reason Happens Order Enemy Winner Justify Loser Degrade Continuance Winner And Loser

Author:Tony Judt

“It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But honestly, those folks are lucky as lottery winners.”

People Knows Wells Mean Book Self Done Stories Problem Might Example Lucky Letters Marketing Folks Be Good Honestly Selling Winner Publishing Editing Publicity Lottery Layout Queries

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Get your idea out there as fast as possible even if it’s not quite ready by setting must-hit deadlines. Let the market tell you if you have a winner or not. If not – move on and fail forward fast! If it’s got potential – then you can make it better.”

Ifs Ideas Moving Failing Ready Setting Settings Winner Deadline

Book:Maverick Startup: 11 X-Factors to Bootstrap From Zero to Six Figures and Beyond

Source: Maverick Startup: 11 X-Factors to Bootstrap From Zero to Six Figures and Beyond

“I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.”

People Has Beens Involved Mets Lucky Winner Prize

Author:Joan Baez

“The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick”

People Thinking Beautiful Faces Keys Picks Winner

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America.”

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Author:Lewis Schiff

“I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.”

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Author:Lewis Schiff

“There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place.”

People Benefits Winner Loser Contests

Author:Catherine Wilson

“As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.”

Virtue Media Winner

Author:Julian Assange

“A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up or down. There's a winner and a loser. It's like betting on a horserace.”

Real Winner Assets Loser Estates Betting Derivatives

Author:Michael Hudson

“There are no winners in this election [2016]. I paid attention to it for about two months and then it just started to depress me. At least Hillary's [Clinton] a politician, but the fact that you've got a guy from a reality TV show! I have to say, out of everything I've ever watched in sports - the greatest comebacks ever - watching [Donald Trump] get the nomination for the Republican Party is the most astounding thing I've ever seen.”

“What you want to see [in Formula One] is a highly competitive sport - and the more equal it is the more exciting it is... the more volatile in the sense of results. If you have just one winner continuously it dulls the enthusiasm.”

Ifs Want Sports Results Equal Exciting What You Want Enthusiasm Winner Just One Formulas Formula One Competitive Sports

Author:Martin Sorrell

“In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.”

Issues Plenty Winner Loser

Author:Dick Gephardt

“In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.”

Results Accepting Democracy Issues Willing Genius Plenty Winner Loser

Author:Dick Gephardt

“It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.”

People Ifs World Happens Building Products Standards Winner Reasoning Description Improving

Author:Cathy O'Neil

“Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.”

Humanity Data Winner Loser Winner And Loser

Author:Cathy O'Neil

“An insurance company might say, "Tell us more about yourself so your premiums can go down." When they say that, they're addressing the winners, not the losers.”

Might Company Winner Loser About Yourself Insurance Companies

Author:Cathy O'Neil

“On the one hand, to suggest that white poll watchers are going to black communities threatening and provocative. On the other hand is to suggest that if that same line of vote is he also resists making a commitment to honor the winner of the campaign, that there is another agenda.”

Ifs Hands Black Community Lines White Honor Commitment Vote Campaigns Winner Agendas Threatening Polls Provocative Watchers Black Community

Author:Jesse Jackson

“You go into the voting booths and you can rank your choices. So your first choice is an underdog that might not win, you know, that your choice number two, which might be your lesser evil, your safety choice, your vote is automatically reassigned from your first choice to your second choice if your first choice losses and there's not a majority winner. So it essentially eliminates, splitting it, eliminates having to vote your fear instead of your values.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Two Might Values Choices Evil Winning Loss Numbers Vote Safety Majority Winner Voting Underdog Splitting Lesser Evil Second Choice

Author:Jill Stein

“The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.”

Ifs Matter Party Victory Lessons Winner Margins Lesson Learned

Author:Mara Liasson

“Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.”

“Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying not to step into something and get a call, "Dad why'd you say that?"! But we'd go to games [where score wasn't kept], and I'd get it, but I wouldn't get it, because I think there's a real value in winners and losers, in not everybody getting a trophy - it makes you work hard, you appreciate what it takes, to say, "Why didn't we win?" You shouldn't be condemned for losing.”

“Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.”

Doe States Constitution Winner Restriction

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“I think the archaic idea is actually winner take all, because the principle of "one person, one vote" is a principle that was introduced as a fundamental principle in American law in 1962, long after states had moved to "one person, one vote."”

Thinking Persons Long Ideas States Law Principles Vote Fundamentals Moved Winner Fundamental Principles American Law

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared, scared that [Vladimir] Putin manipulated us, worried about Rex Tillerson, the winner of Russia's order of friendship as the secretary of state.”

Thinking States Order Scared Russia Worried Winner Secretary Putin

Author:E. J. Dionne

“We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser.”

Knows Vote Election Winner Loser Brag Free Elections

Author:Jim Brown

“My point is, if we respect the winner and approach that person, have access to that person and that person will look at what we are presenting, that is not too bad.”

Ifs Looks Persons Approach Access Winner Presenting

Author:Jim Brown

“More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and the whole international distribution of film.”

People Whole Together Film International Winner Distribution Netflix Sundance

Author:Ava DuVernay

“Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.”

Life Is Winning Losing Winner Loser Competing Trophies Winning And Losing

Author:Jim Courier

“What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.”

Stills Deals Winner Loser

Author:Jim Courier

“One of my favourite fighters was Lennox Lewis - he got out at number one. A fight with the winner of the Wladimir Klitschko and Anthony Joshua fight would put me at number one.”

Fighting Numbers Fighter Winner Favourite

Author:David Haye

“It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.”

Ifs Matter Actors Directors Winner Collaboration Oscars

Author:Baran Odar

“Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.”

Thinking Knows Want Opinion Winner Nobody Knows

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Many people who have lost out in the last few decades voted for Trump. Trump will have a difficult time turning them into winners. The jobs of these people are not at risk because of Chinese or Mexican workers, but because of robots and computers. And new trade barriers and higher tariffs are not going to change that.”

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Author:Nicholas Bloom

“I always wanted to be a winner, to score goals. There was no massive bravery in terms of my mum passing away and stepping up. I just wanted to score. I know everyone would have given me a pass on it if I hadn't taken it. But I'd have had the hump with myself if I'd shirked it.”

Ifs Knows Wanted Given Goal Term Taken Bravery Passing Passings Winner Score Massive Mum Passing Away

Author:Frank Lampard

“I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and report what they witness. That's their job as artists, you're looking for the rub, where's the rub, you're a storyteller, you're looking for the rub, not necessarily the solutions, or you're not necessarily educated, you're not the winner of a debate contest, a national debate contest, you're not necessarily a person who has a doctorate in anything.”

Thinking Persons Jobs Artist Views Emotional Solutions Point Of View Debate Educated Witness Winner Reports Storyteller Contests Doctorates

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“In the American constitutional system of three different branches, conflict - and I mean that peaceful, vigorous debate - it's a feature of our system, not a bug. We need less all-or - winner-take-all politics.”

Needs Mean Different Three Conflict Debate Peaceful Winner Features Branches Bugs Vigorous

Author:Benjamin E. Sasse

“I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I didn't know about, like the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness, who wrote "Independent People." .”

People Knows Periods Independent Be Good Winner Prize Nobel Nobel Prize Nobel Prize Winners

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“It's not his job, the president's, to pick winners and losers, nor to pass judgment on anybody.”

Jobs President Judgment Picks Winner Loser Winner And Loser

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I know Donald Trump; he's a winner; he's committed; and he has intended all along to do what he thinks is necessary to save America.”

Thinking Knows America Trump Committed Winner

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Folks, let me ask you a question about that. You voted in 2010, 2014. You're part of the Tea Party and you show up and you just vote. Republicans said they needed the House, and you gave it to 'em; then they said they needed the Senate, and you gave it to 'em. Do you feel like winners even after those two elections? Probably not, because you really didn't think the Republican Party was going to change their stripes and start acting on all this.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.”

Book Kids Sports Quitting Winner Never Quit Winners Never Quit

Author:David Duchovny

“The winner leaves undefeated and a lot of people will say they are the top guy at welterweight. I would definitely like a crack at that title, being the top guy at welterweight.”

People Guy Winner Titles Cracks Undefeated

Author:Lamont Peterson

“If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.”

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Author:Nadine Gordimer

“For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, "Academy Award winner so-and-so."”

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Author:Robert Osborne

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