Holiday Quotes - Page 29

• Labour day is a great American holiday that people
  celebrate by going out and buying products
  made in China

  David Letterman

  People, Buying, Going Out

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• For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Letters, Littles, Break

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• The best part about holiday parties is the alcohol. You have a couple of drinks and you tell your coworkers and your superiors what you really think about them. And then the fun begins.

  David Letterman

  Couple, Fun, Party

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• Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

  Denis Norden

  Sweaters, Age, Goes On

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• As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

  Julia Cameron

  Disruption, Tempo, Disturbing

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

  Argus Hamilton

  Easter, Brother, Eye

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• I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Jobs, Believe, Mean

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• Many Americans celebrate both Christmas and Xmas. Others celebrate one or the other. And some of us celebrate holidays that, although unconnected with the [winter] solstice, occur near it: Ramadan, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

  John Silber

  Xmas, Winter, Kwanzaa

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• I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play-
  I dropped the worry on the way-
  And God was good to me everyday.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Play, Long, Worry

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Shopping, Enjoy, Going On Holiday

  "Tamara Ecclestone: I'm just a normal girl who happens to be worth £3billion". www.mirror.co.uk. January 9, 2012.

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• As a comedian, especially one that works as much as I do, there is a lot of sacrifice. People don't see that I'm away from my family 46 weeks out of the year. I miss all the birthdays and anniversaries and holidays.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Sacrifice, Years, People

  "Gabriel Iglesias – The Fluffy Movie". Interview with Kiko Martinez, www.cinesnob.net. July 25, 2014.

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• I'm never home. I miss birthdays. I miss holidays. I miss anniversaries. I miss special moments. I'm not always there for important times, because I'm out on the road trying to make people laugh. I give up my privacy. I give up the ability to walk somewhere and relax.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Giving Up, Home, People

  "Gabriel Iglesias talks about 'The Fluffy Movie', his life and cake". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, www.phoenixfilmfestival.com. July 22, 2014.

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• As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Book, Drs

  "The lady and the chimps". Wanderlust Travel Magazine Interview, www.wanderlust.co.uk. April 10, 2009.

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• My favorite time of year is October, Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I know that watching horror movies was such a special thing to me as a child and my only dream is that I get to make it feel like Halloween all year round for other kids, for other weirdos like me.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Dream, Children, Halloween

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.

  John Waters

  Wine, Comedy, My Favorite

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• In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Country, Athlete, Winning

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow legal pads are a must. And my eyebrow pencil. I'm very low-maintenance.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Writing, Iphone

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• Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.

  B. C. Forbes

  Summer, Dog, Rip

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• When you compare Christmas to Hanukkah, there's no comparison. Christmas is great. Hanukkah sucks! First night you get socks. Second night, an eraser, a notebook. It's a Back-to-School holiday!

  Lewis Black

  Notebook, School, Night

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• I enjoy been on holidays because you can do whatever you want and people can't say anything to you.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  People, Say Anything, Want

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.

  Rachael Ray

  Cooking, Kitchen, Trying

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• Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

  Katharine Tynan

  Travel, Home, Want

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• Most Christmas carols have no obvious religious content, or at least that's noticeable to most people. I mean, it is almost by definition, a cultural phenomenon, all these songs, even though they point to this very religious holiday. They're not religious songs in effect anymore.

  Howard Dean

  Song, Religious, Mean

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.

  Tucker Carlson

  Kwanzaa, President, Bills

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

  Michael Symon

  Family, Thanksgiving, Years

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