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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.


Seamus Heaney


#being #city #encountered #end #ever

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.


Alfred Day Hershey


#awards #bring #colleagues #curious #even

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.


Evan Hunter


#aspirations #award #broadway #i #like

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.


John Bolton


#hopelessly #i #i think #itself #nobel

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.


T. S. Eliot


#anything #done #ever #funeral #got

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.


Henry Louis Gates


#effect #had #him #i #i think

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.


Irving Langmuir


#aspect #awards #bring #carry #common

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.


Doris Lessing


#collapsed #got #hospital #i #nobel

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.


Doris Lessing


#bonus #give #lovely #money #nobel

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.


Doris Lessing


#better #dead #give #had #i






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