Celebrate Quotes - Page 25

• For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.

  Junot Diaz

  Fiction, Moments, Remarkable

  "Junot Díaz wins world's richest short story prize" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

  Vin Diesel

  Trying, Looks, Feminine

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• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Diamond Jubilee, Atmosphere, Together

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• I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

  Tracey Emin

  Nice, Book, Adventure

  "The Saturday interview: Tracey Emin". Interview with Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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• I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

  Amy Grant

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

  Anne Hathaway

  Wedding, Important, Celebrate Life

  Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

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• You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

  Salma Hayek

  Choices, Kingdoms, Different

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• It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it.

  Hulk Hogan

  Wrestling, Gay, Guy

  "Hulk Hogan Responds To Gay Rumors On ‘The Wendy Williams Show’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 09, 2012.

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• In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

  Naveen Jain

  Attitude, Failure, Fall

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 19, 2016

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• It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

  Jay-Z

  Friendship, One Day, Emotion

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• I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

  Kim Kardashian

  Holiday, Hearing, Armenia

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  I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.

  Kesha

  Imperfection, Embrace

  "Ke$ha: There's a Real Girl Underneath All That Glitter". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. February 2, 2012.

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• You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Thinking, Things Change, Okay

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• That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

  Alan King

  New Year, Father, Kids

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• I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?

  Lenny Kravitz

  Party, Mean, People

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• The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

  Anne Lamott

  Birthday, Shock, Worst

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• I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Gratitude, Flower

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• Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.

  Hugh Laurie

  Play, Way, Months

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

  Eric Liu

  Diversity, Together, Way

  "Sworn-Again Americans" by Eric Liu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

  Christian Louboutin

  Female, Form, All Things

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• That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

  Wangari Maathai

  Beautiful, Flower, Flames

  "Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai: A Global Icon Of Conservation" by Korva Coleman, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.

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• As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

  John M. McHugh

  Memorial Day, War, America

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• I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Opportunity, Play, Trying

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• I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

  Bette Midler

  Religious, Holiday, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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