#prize

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#arts #cinematic #most #prized #screenwriting

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#been #called #i #joke #newspaper

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#decisions #done #had #i #lot

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#certainly #i #much #never #placed

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#collapsed #got #hospital #i #nobel

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#delighted #europe #every #i #lot

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. ↗

— Willard Libby

#clearly #deal #done #forth #goals

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#prize #pursuing #rapture #vanquished

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#defense #despotism #destroy #doors #everywhere