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“When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.”

Winning Kings Fellows Rap Popularity Contests Dismay Ramones Popularity Contest

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.”

Ifs Men World Life Hard Winning Peace Risk Stronger Dear Ease Contests Domination Shrinks Hazards Ignoble Swollen

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.”

Stills Facts Winning Loses Contests Invulnerability

Author:Brenna Yovanoff

“I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?”

Source: Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition

“We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.”

Life Success Winning Victory Self Control Contests

Author:Edward Gibbon

“I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid contest. But if it is, I feel like the winner that came in last.”

Ifs Feels Lasts Winning Stupid Paint Winner Urges Contests

Author:Jim Rowe

“I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?”

Want Trying Wells Film Actors Winning Hollywood Why Not Popularity Contests Good Actors Popularity Contest

Author:Roger Moore

“Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I'm the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again.”

Real Bigs Winning Ready Basketball Contests Slam Cactus Slam Dunk

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.”

Ifs Way Fighting Evil Winning Good And Evil Contests

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.”

Way Wells Winning Failing Popularity Contests Compensation Popularity Contest

Author:Lois Wyse

“In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.”

“Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.”

Winning Mass Zero Contests Minimalist Radius Neutrinos

Book:The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

“I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.”

Persons Kids Reading Winning Summer Library Academic Contests Summer Reading

Author:Julianne Moore

“When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.”

Trying Mind Winning Loses Conflict Contests Winning Losing

Book:The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art

Source: The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art

“As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.”

Country Bigs Government Winning Interest Company Mountain Contests Big Government Subsidies Public Interest

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

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