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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
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
— W. Edwards Deming
Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.
— Vladimir Franz
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things, ... — Alexander Pope
Sometimes ... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
— Robert Genn
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
— Clarence Darrow
Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.
— Leo Burnett
Mass is vital to a bodybuilder's physique. But it is the shape and the quality of this mass that win contests.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.
— Jefferson Davis
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
I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone.
— Charles Bukowski
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.
— Robert Heilbroner
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
You will never have to experience defeat if you avoid contests whose outcome is outside your control.
— Epictetus
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
— William Cowper
It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
— Blaise Pascal
The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.
— Ludwig Boltzmann
I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just ... old.
— D. L. Hughley
Jude had witnessed all of this with the dejected respect one had for people with destructive talents, like winning hamburger-eating contests.
— Eleanor Henderson
I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
— Alexander The Great
There is not a greater discovery of pride in the world than in the contests of our wills with the will of God.
— John Flavel
The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done.
— George W. Bush
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
— John Szarkowski
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 love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
— James A. Garfield
Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.
— Bud Grant
I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.
— Andrew Evans
You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.
— Jean-Christophe Maillot
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
I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse ...
— George Lucas
We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.
— Edward Gibbon
All contests are unfair; you just have to win them.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
— Michael Mandelbaum
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
— William Prescott
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
