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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

Topics: Any Back Cause Conservative Considered Contests Everything Friends Go Going Had Know Lot Popularity Think Thoroughly Through Who Win You

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Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.

~David Brock

Topics: Become Contests Debates Most Presidential Republican Viewers Who

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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

Topics: After Any Contests Dismay Exactly Fellow Got King Myself Popularity Ramones Rap Total Win

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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

Topics: Always Among Beat Between Competing Contests Group Groups Humans Individuals Intense Selfish Win Within

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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

Topics: Annual Beach City College Contests Crazy Crazy Things Down First Inside Instead Interesting Interpretation Judges Kids Kinds Like Long Me Music Out Piano Playing Prize Put Read Right Row Stuff Things Thought Two Used Very Were Won Years

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I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and winning two or three contests a weekend, I ditched the agency job and concentrated on darts.

~Eric Bristow

Topics: Advertising Advertising Agency Agency By The Time City Concentrated Contests Darts Earning Every First First Job Got Job Playing Prize Regularly Then Three Time Tournaments Two Week Weekend Winning

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I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

~Florence Griffith Joyner

Topics: Always Around Basketball Brothers Contests Could Doing Farthest Football Get Hands Our Physical Playing Projects Racing See Something Street Them Used Walk Who

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There is no point in winning contests if you can't leave mental scars on the minds of the opposition teams.

~Gautam Gambhir

Topics: Contests Leave Mental Minds No Point Opposition Point Scars Teams Winning You

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