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I have been in L.A. for a week and the town has been full of Grammy fever, to actually be a recipient is incredibly special. I am thrilled and cannot wait to bring it home. (on winning a Grammy)

- Kylie Minogue

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.

- Samuel P. Huntington

And I`m going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we`ll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I`d like to think I`m going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

- Jim Valvano

(Banner is so committed to paving that road he even placed 5 golden tickets in select copies of his first album. Each lucky recipient got a $10,000 scholarship to the school of their choice.) The one thing I hate about America, ... is how they channel all these ideas to the urban community that are not conducive to us being functional people in America . They`ve got us thinking it`s negative to be smart; that it makes you a `nerd,` and that it`s cool to be late for everything and be unprofessional. Whenever I do an interview I have to wait around for the writer because they just assume that rappers are always late. So I`m trying to show that there`s nothing wrong with handling your business properly and doing what you`re supposed to and that there`s nothing wrong with being smart. Knowledge is what you need in order to survive!

- David Banner

We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.

- Al Gillen

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

- Amy Collins

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

- Andre Grant

All the cookie money stays with the council and troops. The only other recipient is the bakery. None of it goes to the national headquarters.

- Arthur Phillip

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

- John D. Rockefeller