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I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. -- James A. Garfield
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. -- Abraham Lincoln
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. -- Morihei Ueshiba
I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests. -- Clarence Thomas
I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline. -- Arthur Godfrey
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. -- Taylor Swift
Art has never been a popularity contest. -- James Levine
The presidency is more than a popularity contest. -- Al Gore
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships. -- Ibycus
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. -- Benazir Bhutto
You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. -- Rowan Atkinson
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. -- Frank Sinatra
Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares? -- Robert Genn
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. -- Daniel Webster
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. -- Edward Gibbon
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce
Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest! -- Chris Rock
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. -- Epictetus
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. -- Al Gore
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. -- Lord Byron
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else. -- Geoff Gaberino
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
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. -- George Eliot
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
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. -- Norman Mailer
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
Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority. -- Pearl S. Buck
As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it. -- Jonathan Demme
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. -- Saint Ambrose
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. -- Michael Mandelbaum
I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money. -- Bam Margera
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. -- E. O. Wilson
The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
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. -- Dee Dee Ramone
I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production. -- Phil Anselmo
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory. -- John Strachan
I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests. -- Al Jourgensen
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests. -- Pink
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I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium. -- James Franco
There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd. -- Arlen Specter
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. -- Lisa See
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! -- Eddie Van Halen
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. -- Eddie Van Halen
Great contests generally excite great animosities. -- Livy
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor. -- Clarence Darrow
Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win. -- Ursula Vernon
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... -- Alexander Pope
Dominance contests are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none. -- L. David Mech
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. -- Alexander Hamilton
Jude had witnessed all of this with the dejected respect one had for people with destructive talents, like winning hamburger-eating contests. -- Eleanor Henderson
Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests." -- Richard Dawkins
I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing. -- Coco Lee
In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about. -- Miyamoto Musashi
I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered. -- Joel Salatin
All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters. -- Nick Goepper
Having lost the training and rites that prepare a girl for becoming truly queenly, a mature woman, we have instead beauty-queen contests for five-year-olds. -- Bill Plotkin
Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took. -- Frankie Avalon
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. -- Lois Wyse
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game. -- Pat Conroy
I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog! -- Matthew Lillard
People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that. -- Don Murray
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. -- John Podhoretz
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests. -- James S. Coleman
These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand. -- Kelly Clark
Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets - and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate. -- Joel Salatin
In a day and age when there are so many culinary competitions - ranging from contests of taste to those of technique - The World Food Championships will be the ultimate food competition. -- Adam Richman
In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators. -- Saint John Chrysostom
I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda. -- Brian MacLearn
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich. -- Stephen J. Field
The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life. -- Jack Johnson

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