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Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.
Dinah Shore
Death
You
Achievement
Wonderful
Own
Mine
Thrilled
Emmys
Industry
Sort
How
Representative
Where
Your
Grown
Specific
Thing
The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.
Dominic Thiem
You
Achievement
Important
Difficult
Only
Very
Gain
Medal
Olympics
Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world's leading corporations - Google, Intel and Motorola, to name but a few - maintain research and development facilities here, and our technology start-ups continue to be acquired by the likes of AOL, eBay and IBM.
Ehud Olmert
Achievement
Technology
World
Google
Few
Research
Our
Corporations
Facilities
Development
Leading
Maintain
Name
Likes
Forefront
Israel
Proudly
Continue
Intel
Acquired
International
Stands
Here
The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.
Elliott Abrams
Politics
Achievement
Son
World
Power
UN
Kim
Sung
Grandson
Unique
World Politics
You cannot underestimate Zidane's achievement of winning the Champions League three times in a row - it must have taken superb skills to motivate the likes of Ronaldo, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema et al to have the desire to become serial Champions League winners.
Eniola Aluko
You
Achievement
Three
Become
Must
Superb
Winners
Winning
Taken
League
Underestimate
Likes
Motivate
Times
Cannot
Skills
Serial
Al
Row
Champions
Champions League
Desire
Beating a record for the oldest World Cup player means that it's an achievement for my country before it's an achievement for me.
Essam El Hadary
Me
Achievement
World
Country
Before
Record
Beating
Cup
Means
World Cup
Oldest
Player
Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
Ezra Taft Benson
You
Achievement
Correct
More
Smallest
Praise
Than
Children
Them
Your
Even
2010 was an incredible year for me. I won the Best of the Super Juniors, and went on to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title. That was an unbelievable achievement.
Finn Balor
Best
Me
Achievement
Win
Year
Incredible
Super
Unbelievable
Won
Junior
Juniors
Heavyweight
Title
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
Fredric Jameson
War
Home
Achievement
Writing
World
Made
Films
Aid
States
Markets
Secure
Various
Clause
Generally
Pushed
Since
Massive
Foreign
End
Dominance
Effort
Politically
Packages
United
United States
Second
Treaties
World War
Second World War
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.
Fredrik Bajer
Great
Achievement
Money
Great Deal
Danish
More
Adult
Had
Demands
Also
Occasions
Deal
Quarter
However
Denmark
Than
Effort
Movement
Really
Population
Letter
Two
I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
Gavin DeGraw
Achievement
Feeling
Big
Small
Miss
Like
Deal
Big Deal
Sensation
Really
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Love
Death
Family
Me
Failure
Achievement
Business
School
Mother
Values
Believe
Birth
Guided
Harvard
Possible
Strongest
Could
Through
Scholarship
Learned
Proven
Loss
Friends
Family Values
Taught
Anything
Business School
Lessons
Ever
Her
Imagined
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
Gelsey Kirkland
You
Achievement
Struggle
Remember
Become
Striving
High
High Level
Paralyzed
Imperfect
Perfection
Almost
Idea
Reached
Very
Effort
Often
Just
Anything
Might
Hard
Level
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
George Santayana
Achievement
Creative
Prolific
Seldom
Periods
Stirred
Up
Tranquillity
Mankind
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
Gustav Krupp
Great
Achievement
Man
People
Fate
Strong
Nation
President
Our
Our People
Entire
Purposes
Historical
Hands
Placed
United
Whose
I'm not going to have a six-pack abs. I think it's a luxury to have six-pack abs, but I don't think I can afford it yet. It's extremely tough, and I think having it will be an achievement.
Harshvardhan Rane
Achievement
Luxury
Will
Tough
Think
Extremely
Having
Afford
Going
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes
Life
Work
Good
Day
Achievement
Game
Single
Year
Side
Those
Good Thing
Mere
Longevity
Hour
Lines
May
Eternity
Who
Play
Thing
Watch
Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.
Henning Mankell
Achievement
People
Wonderful
Shoes
Believe
Liberation
Through
Never
Trousers
Although
Provide
End
Wonderful Thing
China
Fantastic
Shouting
Billion
Mao
Pairs
Thing
Streets
Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.
Henry Petroski
Achievement
Change
Better
Everything
Characteristic
Rather
Perfect
Drives
Simply
Make
Although
Makes
Always
Goal
Than
Want
Anything
Cannot
Process
Flaw
Engineers
Products
Profession
Basic
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Me
Achievement
Genius
Better
Soil
Has-Been
Writers
Rendered
Polish
Does
Been
Fertile
Than
Lack
Homage
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
Herbert Croly
Achievement
Natural
Equality
World
Benefits
Liberty
Prosperity
Political
Organization
Political Liberty
Citizens
Given
Only
Civilization
Economic
Material
American
Gain
Social
Social Organization
Wholesome
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace
Truth
Art
Great
Achievement
Book
Liar
Nothing
Great Art
Say
Something
Writes
Like
Call
Makes
None
However
Less
Whole
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
Howard Barker
Character
Achievement
Experience
Theatre
Anxiety
Writer
Greatest
Greatest Achievement
Taxing
Produce
Creates
Should
Who
I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.
Howard Fast
Achievement
States
Born
Noblest
Greatest
Up
America
Human
Grew
Which
Race
Planet
Human Race
United
United States
United States Of America
Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.
Hunter Hayes
Hope
Me
Achievement
People
Sense
Meeting
Say
Kindred
Spirit
Lifetime
He
Massive
Him
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
Wonder
Did
Same
Sweetest
Actually
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Ibrahim Babangida
Success
Alone
Leadership
Achievement
Survival
Opportunity
Nation
Luck
Every
Development
Concrete
Prayers
While
Available
Base
Away
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