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• I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Years, Cooking, Way

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• The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Air, Hands

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.

  Richard Lerner

  Funny, Technology, Reception

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• I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.

  Picabo Street

  Team, Thinking, Opening Ceremony

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• For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Secret, Chance

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Moving, Self, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.186, Stanford University Press

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• It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

  Mark Twain

  Sorry, Ideas, Heaven

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

  Steve Aylett

  Gun, America, Tea

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• I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

  Karan Johar

  Winning, Long, Want

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• The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Art, Years, Practice

  Lafcadio Hearn (2005). “Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

  Havelock Ellis

  Marriage, Sex, Play

  Havelock Ellis (2015). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex v3: Human Sexuality”, p.198, 谷月社

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• The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Vow, Contracts, Binding

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• Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Enemy, Social

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.136, University of Georgia Press

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• The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

  Vincent Canby

  Shopping, Cheerful, Taste

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• In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Names, Religion

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• When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Country, Art, Fun

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• Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

  Margaret Atwood

  What Matters, Hands, Gardening

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

  J. D. Greear

  Prayer, Moving, Rest Of Your Life

  J. D. Greear (2013). “Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved”, p.5, B&H Publishing Group

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• There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Wise, Three

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• Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing dresses, to go to big ceremonies.

  Paz Vega

  Beautiful, Party, Dresses

  "Viva La Vega". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Wedding, Soulmate

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• We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Haste, Insult

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.243, Penguin

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• To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Marriage, Divorce, Thinking

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• President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy"

  David O. McKay

  Marriage, Couple, Kindness

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• You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy!

  Phyllis Diller

  Beautiful, Steps, Comedy

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