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There is something so arbitrary about prizes.
Steve Toltz
Arbitrary
About
Something
Prizes
It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.
Terence Tao
People
Framed
Alive
Cash
He
Instead
Cheque
Traditional
Prizes
Did
While
Award
Actually
I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes.
Terence Tao
Mathematics
Nice
Think
Others
About
Nobel
Like
Prize
Prizes
Really
Nice Thing
Thing
As a player, you always want to win prizes.
Thibaut Courtois
You
Win
Always
Prizes
Want
Player
In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college's top essay and poetry prizes, to write about 'the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.'
Tom Reiss
Winter
Age
College
Young
Liberalism
Top
Monthly
Harvard
Atlantic
About
Poetry
Write
Had
Invited
Won
Prizes
Essay
Graduate
Meaning
Meaning Of
Who
Peter
Present
If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
Val McDermid
You
Best-Seller
Goodbye
Make
Prizes
Get
List
Any
I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Myself
Focus
Winner
Biology
Out
Gene
Crossroads
Had
Nobel
Knew
Between
Prizes
Going
Convinced
Stands
Why Galatasaray and not Liverpool? Because I am a winner - I play for prizes - so I went to Galatasaray because I thought that I would win more at Galatasaray and be champion than at Liverpool, and I think afterwards that I made the right choice.
Wesley Sneijder
Champion
Win
Thought
Made
Winner
Think
Would
More
Because
Am
Than
Prizes
Afterwards
Choice
Liverpool
Why
Play
Right
Right Choice
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
William Feather
Best
Daily
Meet
Way
Those
Emergencies
Go
Prizes
Task
Successfully
Who
Each
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.
William Gibson
Science
Own
Our
Would
Embraced
My Own
Given
Unchanged
Could
Head
Mainstream
Genre
Safely
Science Fiction
Continue
Been
Snappy
Label
Very
Prizes
List
Influence
Want
Fiction
Manifesto
Then
Things
Assimilate
Last
Career
Two
We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.
Frances Arnold
Women
Stream
Chemistry
Predict
Out
See
Steady
Given
Nobel
Coming
Prizes
Going
I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising to me.
Donna Strickland
Me
Women
Thought
Goodness
Bit
Nobel
Looked
Surprising
Prizes
Little
Little Bit
Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
Xavier Dolan
Myself
World
Over
Wrote
Years
Won
Role
Prizes
Six
Then
Act
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