Amanda Bynes  - Quotes

 I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else. 

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Cool Runnings  - Quotes

 Sanka Coffie:
I'm the driver.
Irv:
You're not. You're the brakeman.
Sanka Coffie:
You don't understand, I am Sanka Coffie, I am the best pushcart driver in all of Jamaica! I must drive! Do you dig where I'm coming from?
Irv:
Yeah, I dig where you're coming from.
Sanka Coffie:
Good.
Irv:
Now dig where I'm coming from. I'm coming from two gold medals. I'm coming from nine world records in both the two- and four-man events. I'm coming from ten years of intense competition with the best athletes in the world.
Sanka Coffie:
That's a hell of a place to be coming from!
 

Winning London  - Quotes

 Chloe:
Look. This competition is very important to me. It's not a play to play thing. It's a play to win thing.
 

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That Thing You Do!  - Quotes

 
[during TV interview with band]
Lenny Haise:
Oh, I'm not here with these fellas. I've got a pig in competition over at the livestock pavilion, and I am going to win that blue ribbon!
 

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New in Town  - Quotes

 Lucy Hill:
[conversation at dinner table] Industrial competition in a free-market economy is what built this country.
Ted Mitchell:
No, robber barons built this country, and they did it from the blood of working folks. Hell, you steal somebody's car, you get thrown in jail, you steal somebody's life savings, you get to be a CEO.
Lucy Hill:
I'm planning on being a CEO.
Ted Mitchell:
Well, Blanche, you better count the silverware before she leaves, then.
Lucy Hill:
Oh, don't bother, I'm leaving now.
Ted Mitchell:
Not if I leave first. [both get up to leave together]
 

Redbelt  - Quotes

 Sondra Terry:
My father made money, my brothers make money, and you are somehow too pure. You're too pure to compete.
Mike Terry:
It...
Sondra Terry:
Weakens the fighter?
Mike Terry:
That's right.
Sondra Terry:
Because a competition is not a fight.
Mike Terry:
That's correct.
Sondra Terry:
And what about the fighter's family, Mike? What do they eat, while he's being so pure?
 

Lucky You  - Quotes

 Billie Offer:
Why do you like it so much? Is it the money?
Huck Cheever:
The money's just a way of keeping score. Poker is competition in the purest sense. Doesn't mater who you are or what you are; everybody's equal at the table.
 

Anne Hathaway  - Quotes

 I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive but I've always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett philosophy of life - I laugh. I love my job but if it means hurting someone I won't do it. 

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Huo Yuan Jia  - Quotes

 Huo Yuan Jia:
Poison works very quickly. It has worked its way to my heart... Zhensheng, promise me you won't seek revenge. Revenge will only bring us more bloodshed. Please, that's not what I want. We must strive to become triumphant... Nong Jinsun, I only understand wushu. I practiced for many years to understand what Wushu is, what is wushu's real purpose. The competition must continue. One cannot choose how one's life begins. It takes courage to finish the final step.
 

Good Will Hunting  - Quotes

 Sean:
Hey, Gerry, In the 1960s there was a young man that graduated from the University of Michigan. Did some brilliant work in mathematics. Specifically bounded harmonic functions. Then he went on to Berkeley. He was assistant professor. Showed amazing potential. Then he moved to Montana, and blew the competition away.
Lambeau:
Yeah, so who was he?
Sean:
Ted Kaczynski.
Lambeau:
Haven't heard of him.
Sean:
[yelling to the bartender] Hey, Timmy!
Timmy:
Yo.
Sean:
Who's Ted Kaczynski?
Timmy:
Unabomber. [Lambeau winces as he realizes the point Sean is making]
 



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