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I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like something I should tuck into my pants -- Kelli Jae Baeli
When I compete, I leave it all on the table. That's my philosophy for the Hot Dog Eating Contest. Do you know what's in those things? Gross! -- Jarod Kintz
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously, -- Terry Wogan
Contests were so pertinent that you had to think that way but today, it's not like that. You have your contest skaters, you have your video skaters, you have your skaters who don't like either of them, but they all are sponsored and get paid. -- Christian Hosoi
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. -- Frank Sinatra
Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest. -- Bryan Callen
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. -- Epictetus
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. -- Robin S. Sharma
I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience. -- Amanda Latona
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. -- Steven Brust
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win. -- Tammy Bruce
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. -- Samuel Adams
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators. -- Joseph Barbera
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be. -- Tab Hunter
My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two. -- Johann Lamont
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. -- Robert D. Hare
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An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting. -- Bipasha Basu
I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is? -- Priyanka Chopra
Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard. -- Regina Brett
A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest. -- Barbara Corcoran
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. -- William Jennings Bryan
People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle. -- John Cena
I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. -- Jason Wiles
I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever. -- Rob Zombie
One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds. -- Charles Kelley
My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother. -- Gloria Estefan
All language is a popularity contest. -- Erin McKean
Life is not a popularity contest -- Susun Weed
Playing guitar is not a beauty contest. -- Ernie Isley
Art has never been a popularity contest. -- James Levine
Focus on winning the contest with yourself. -- John Kessel
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest. -- William Devane
Marketing is a contest for people's attention. -- Seth Godin
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. -- Benazir Bhutto
I foresee a great funeral contest over me. -- Alexander the Great
A good marriage is a contest of generosity. -- Diane Sawyer
The presidency is more than a popularity contest. -- Al Gore
The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest. -- William Rainey Harper
I'm not out here to win a beauty contest. -- Kirk Gibson
I never count countries. Travel is not a contest. -- Andrew Evans
Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest. -- Savielly Tartakower
The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy. -- Ludwig Boltzmann
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. -- William Prescott
Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance. -- Vladimir Franz
He changed more times than a baby in a beer-drinking contest. -- Scott Adams
It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory. -- Blaise Pascal
Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. -- Stephen King
People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest. -- Dominique Wilkins
I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6. -- Ryan Sheckler
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. -- Benazir Bhutto
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. -- Dustin Hoffman
Apparently Matts been busier than a centipede at a toe counting contest. -- Joe Teti
I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse... -- George Lucas
War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds. -- Samuel Moyn
In case you're wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest. -- Mario Batali
You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. -- Rowan Atkinson
It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate. -- Eminem
I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest. -- Andrew Lansley
I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest. -- Fred Durst
I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting. -- Stacy Keibler
I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day. -- Jimmy Piersall
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. -- Alexander Pope
When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win. -- Thomas Crum
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it -- Ben Hogan
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. -- Joseph Conrad
I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose. -- Marilyn Manson
Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass. -- Leon M. Lederman
I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest. -- Phyllis Diller
You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead. -- Jack Welch
In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter. -- Sylvester Stallone
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. -- Edward Gibbon
You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction. -- Conor McGregor
Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them. -- Leo Burnett
I'm about to enter a national ass-kicking contest. With no legs. And a massive ass. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest. -- Thomas Paine
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. -- Daniel Webster
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity. -- Seneca the Younger
We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power. -- Edward Snowden
Good thing it's a fight and not a modeling contest or you'd be f#cked. -- Matt Serra
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest. -- W. Edwards Deming
I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be -- Gordon Brown
The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now. -- Gary Johnson
Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression. -- Reuben Fine
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest. -- Eric Clapton
Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest. -- J. B. Smoove
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional. -- Lawrence Lessig
It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys. -- Faith Hunter
I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old. -- D. L. Hughley
There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option. -- Dean Smith
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
Two Romans seem to deliver no contest. Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute! -- Gannicus
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself. -- Fanny Fern
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. -- William Cowper
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended. -- Jim Rohn
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. -- Friedrich Schiller
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. -- Robert Breault
The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. -- Brenna Yovanoff
Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs. -- Jesse Ventura
The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done. -- George W. Bush
Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.' -- Bill Maher
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. -- Miller Williams
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. -- Frederick Douglass
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money. -- Ree Drummond
There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place. -- Catherine Wilson
I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him. -- Patience Jonathan
Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire. -- Adolf Hitler
The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil. -- Elaine Pagels
Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?. -- Matthew McConaughey
I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business. -- Debbie Reynolds
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. -- Sam Harris
I`m 100 percent impartial. I`m - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly. -- Hillary Clinton
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won. -- Robert Heilbroner
Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles? -- Buster Keaton

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