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Quotes About Acknowledgment

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
~ Joseph Brodsky
Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.
~ Margaret Trudeau
Even in 'The OA,' we had to follow Guild requirements and put 'directed by' and the credits, and I'm embarrassed to put my name every time. I mean, who cares. Look it up on the Internet if you want to know who made it.
~ Zal Batmanglij
Fame doesn't get to me. I lead quite a quiet life on the whole - I will go to an awards ceremony if the show I'm in, or I, am nominated because I think it's important to say, 'Thank you.'
~ Suranne Jones
So many people want to be seen not just as a mom or a wife, but they want to be seen wholly.
~ Susan Kelechi Watson
You might as well acknowledge what came before, because you can never do something wholly new. It's not unoriginal to make your references clear.
~ Johnny Flynn
Dione Lucas has been obscured by larger-than-life personalities like Julia Child, but she had it going on. She is like the horse that came in second place, whose name we can't remember. It takes more than just one horse to make a race.
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.
~ David Garrick
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
~ George Porter
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Like I'm seeing Chris Sale; he's got a similar pitching style and strikes guys out a lot. Why are people only talking about my strikeouts and all that stuff?... Why not the other guys, who have similar numbers and pitch counts?
~ Yu Darvish
Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.
~ Robbie Williams
Let me get something straight: I have no problem with ghostwriting as a thing unto itself. What bothers me is the way it's shrouded in secrecy, ignored to the point of straight-up lying. Why not be honest?
~ Rebecca Serle
I have done a wide range of characters and getting acknowledged as a comedian is encouraging for me as an actor.
~ Biju Menon
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
~ Romano Prodi
Winning the Whitbread was a very major thing for me. I'd always been well reviewed, but this made me widely read.
~ Justin Cartwright
I'd like to thank the BBC for allowing me to work here. And I'd like to thank the wife and kids for making it necessary.
~ Les Dawson
I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.
~ Matthew Perry
The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work.
~ James Levine
Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
~ Jack Kilby
I think, sometimes when we face problems and issues in our life, we have a tendency to really deny that a problem exists. Or sometimes we say, oh, it'll go away, or we can handle it. It's - you know, don't worry. I've got it covered. And a lot of times, that's not the case.
~ Judy Smith
I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.
~ Martina Hingis
I remember the defining moment when I first realised I was famous. I was in Africa staying in the little tent city there by the Masai Mara River. Two guys with spears looked at me and said, 'Frasier?'
~ Kelsey Grammer
Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it.
~ Priyamvada Natarajan