#contest

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When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.


Rosemary Clooney


#break #break up #came #cincinnati #contest

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.


Helen Garner


#both #completely #consciously #contested #doing

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '


Arthur Godfrey


#because #beer #clear #contest #gonna

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


#before #contests #day #deadline #each

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.


Fred Durst


#being #contest #fighting #i #limp

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.


Epictetus


#any #contest #depend #does #enter

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


#around #basketball #brothers #contests #could

From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.


Randy West


#any #companies #contestant #eligible #game

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


#assume #book #character #city #clown

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


#among #beat #between #competing #contests