Quotes About Recognition

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On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

When it comes to being famous, you're usually the last to know, and the first to deny it. Unless you were already famous in your head. In which case, party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

Oh. My. God.' she said, pointing out of the window. 'Do you know what that is?'I nodded and said, 'I think I may have seen it before.''That, ' said Florida, 'is the Moonyouidiot.

Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.

Anything you say can and will be used against you, so only say my name.

No, " said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

The main proof that you actually do not exist is that nobody ever criticizes you.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

Anonymity is the fame of the future.

People like B.B. King told me I was a 'star' and told me I was 'the future of blues' - and Buddy Guy, too, ... They told me, 'You're it, son; go on out there.

If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

I don't turn Britney Spears into a star. I have to spot that these people are going to be stars, in the future, and say, "Okay, these guys have cultural validity and they're going to pop."

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

The end goal is to become FIFA Women's Player of the Year.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.