Top Contest Quotes
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
William Devane
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
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon
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
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
William Tecumseh Sherman 
Alexander Pope 
William Jennings Bryan 
Leslie Banks 
Rosemary Clooney 
Samuel Adams 
P. J. O'Rourke 
Warren E. Burger 
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As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.
John Moody 
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I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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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
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope
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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
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Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
Ishmael Reed
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