Celebration Quotes - Page 15

• As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.

  Steve Yzerman

  Years, Long, Lockers

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• In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Artist, Thinking

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Military, Echoes, New Orleans

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• Guilt is imposed by others on you. It is a strategy of the priests to exploit. It is a conspiracy between the priest and the politician to keep humanity in deep slavery forever. They create guilt in you, they create great fear of sin. They condemn you, they make you afraid, they poison your very roots with the idea of guilt. They destroy all possibilities of laughter, joy, celebration. Their condemnation is such that to laugh seems to be a sin, to be joyous means you are worldly.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Mean, Roots

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• If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Challenges, Sentimental

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is unconstitutional to deny people, gay or lesbian couples, the right to marriage. Everyone has equal rights so this is the right way to go. I think it's a great celebration for America.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Couple, Gay, Thinking

  Source: guff.com

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• Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

  Ben Marcus

  Grief, Sound, Looks

  Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.225, Granta Books

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• The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Celebrate Life, Good Things, Should

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Lively, Dies

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.266, Rodale

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• Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of work itself, days on which we celebrate work by declaring our freedom. In a manner of speaking we announce that on this one day we may rest from our work, and without pressure or guilt, we may be glad. A holiday is a holy day-meant for rejoicing in God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christmas, Holiday, Holy Days

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• I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

  Frank O'Connor

  Hero, Writing, Ideas

  Frank O'Connor, Michael A. Steinman (1994). “A Frank O'Connor Reader”, p.13, Syracuse University Press

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• If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!

  Patch Adams

  Party, Opportunity, Focus

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• Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Powerful, Practice, Evil

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• Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.

  Jenny Colgan

  Summer, Sweet, Children

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• The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

  Jenny Holzer

  Yield, Lovely, Awful

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography of a house is also a celebration of the creative minds who envisioned it and provides all the reasons, if any are needed, why Fallingwater should be cherished as a national monument. Franklin Toker has performed an invaluable service.

  Meryle Secrest

  Creative, House, Mind

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• I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Characteristics, Parody, Mockery

  "Ana Gasteyer Talks Living in Suburgatory". Redbook interview, www.redbookmag.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half.

  Bill Rancic

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• I think the body image thing, everybody can identify with that. In our culture there's just so much pressure and so much attention placed on the way we look. You just turn on the TV or flip open a magazine and there's people who don't look like any of us. I think this movie is like, finally, a celebration of reality and of our imperfections. We're not all a size 2 and we're not all a size 0, and you know what? That's OK, because some of us like to eat!

  America Ferrera

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself. Coming full circle is a celebration of freedom and happiness because that's what [my new album] 'Lotus' is representing. I'm embracing everything that I've grown to be and learned to be.

  Christina Aguilera

  Circles, Albums, Freedom And Happiness

  "Christina Aguilera: 'I Embrace My Body' Through Aging and Motherhood" by Jessica Herndon, people.com. October 16, 2012.

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• All right, New York City! Welcome to Madison... Square... Jericho! And after tonight, when I become the true, undisputed Intercontinental champion, the Jerichoholics of the Big Apple will throw a celebration party that will make the millennium bash in Times Square look like my sister's seventh birthday party! It'll be a celebration so huge, so grandiose, so spectacular, that it will never, EEEEEEEEVER, be forgotten again!

  Chris Jericho

  New York, Party, Squares

  "Royal Rumble", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it.

  Susan Tyrrell

  Mother, Lasts, Life Is

  "Susan Tyrrell obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.

  Melissa d'Arabian

  Clever, Responsibility, Want

  Melissa d'Arabian, Raquel Pelzel (2012). “Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes & Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week”, p.12, Clarkson Potter

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• As an artist, i feel lucky to have been given the gift of creativity so that i may share my vision of a better world. I will never forget what it was like to be poor and that is why it is so important to me that my work be accessible to all people. For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is the most important to me.

  Romero Britto

  Art, Creativity, Simple

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• I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.

  Christopher Kimball

  Hate, Party, Ideas

  "Cooking Isn’t Creative, and It Isn’t Easy". Interview with Alex Halberstadt, www.nytimes.com. October 11, 2012.

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