Holiday Quotes - Page 20

• I also tried to focus on songs that Billie Holiday wrote, songs that she had a hand in shaping, like "Strange Fruit"; songs that were written for her or songs that she wrote herself, like "Fine and Mellow" or "God Bless The Child."

  Jose James

  Song, Children, Hands

  Source: revive-music.com

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• The other songs [of Billie Holiday] - "Body and Soul" is like the standard - I also wanted some songs that I knew I would sound good on, as a producer. It's been the same nine songs since I debuted it back in 2012.

  Jose James

  Song, Soul, Sound

  Source: revive-music.com

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• Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] knew it was a Billie Holiday tribute. I'm sure they assumed it was going to be like another singer date, where we just have a bunch of charts and they write them down and they got paid and kind of moved on. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not what I intended.

  Jose James

  Writing, Moved On, Eric

  Source: revive-music.com

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• If I could've picked a birthday it would've been on Halloween. Yeah, it's always been my favorite holiday. Not because it was my birthday, but actually because, I think it was the freedom, you know? When you were a little kid, you got to go out and be an adult for a couple of hours. You got to, like, just go out with your friends and knock on peoples' doors and be nuts and pull pranks and stuff like that. You could be whoever you wanted to be, you know, I guess that was the appeal to it.

  Frank Iero

  Couple, Halloween, Kids

  Source: indientry.com

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• If I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've got to go and check things out and see things and look at things, and have some kind of itinerary in my mind. I think that a lot of people who are, in some ways, successful are kind of like that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Beach, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I love the fact that everybody slightly changes during the holidays. Most people are a little bit brighter and have a little bit more cheer around the Christmas time and are a little bit more giving, so I love that.

  Jordin Sparks

  Cheer, Giving, People

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Real, Simple, Years

  Interview with Léa Seydoux, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 23, 2014.

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• My grandfather was an exceptional entrepreneur and philanthropist who moved from Palestine to Jordan and created an amazing group of companies. In a world where women were expected to get married and stay at home, he encouraged me from a very young age to get involved in business and work. He always took me with him on visits and I would spend my holidays at his office, running errands for him and observing what he did each day.

  Hanan Kattan

  Running, Home, Office

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.

  Patti Smith

  Song, Teenager, Rock And Roll

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

  John Carpenter

  Careers, Killers, Making Money

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• The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people's culture.

  Maulana Karenga

  Integrity, Kwanzaa, Practice

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• Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.

  Vera Farmiga

  Holy Days, Catholic, Important

  "Vera Farmiga on “Higher Ground”". Interview by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2011.

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• I'm excited about Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. It's the feast of a thousand senses, so just eat, eat, eat, eat.

  Hannah Hart

  Excited, My Favorite, Thousand

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

  Samantha Bond

  Family Holiday, Relaxed, I Can

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• Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Stories, Materials, Has Beens

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

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• Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

  Barack Obama

  Gimmicks, Classic, Taxes

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• I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays.

  Leigh-Allyn Baker

  Winning, Awards, Watches

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• I'm that crazy-ass drunk uncle that nobody wants to invite to the holidays and birthdays.

  Mark McGrath

  Uncles, Crazy, Drunk

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• The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

  William James

  War, Party, Camping

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1281, Library of America

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• Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Queens, Men, Guilt

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• When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

  Katha Pollitt

  Baby, Wish, Victim

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• Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that's not a Pippin thing to do, I don't know what is.

  Billy Boyd

  Florida, Firsts, Pool

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• Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was frustrated with the same old stupid sound effects tape we would play, which ends with the theme from 'Ghostbusters' and 'Monster Mash'. I told her that Halloween is way too cool a holiday to suffer through this every year.

  Dee Snider

  Halloween, Stupid, Years

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• My favorite holiday is my birthday-it's very Leo.

  Jennifer Lopez

  My Birthday, My Favorite

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• It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

  Francis Bacon

  Envy, Well Said, Wells

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