Awards sayings

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◆ Winning BET Awards is the equivalent of getting cards with no money in them.

- 99

◆ I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

- Halle Berry99

◆ Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

- Gerald Early99

◆ The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

- Robert Graves99

◆ The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

- Kirk Douglas99

◆ To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

- Peter Ustinov99

◆ I watched the MTV Video Music Awards every year, telling myself that one day I'm going to be there, and it's like, finally - I made it!

- Christina Aguilera99