Holiday Quotes - Page 36

• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Song, Order, Voice

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• My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to walk into walls and tables. I used to think it was hilarious. It was a slapstick cat.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Summer, Wall

  "The mighty clowns" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

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• ...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese workers ... suffer from general ill-health and an excessive accumulation of unwholesome humors caused by their sedentary life ... so to some extent counteract the harm done by many days of sedentary life. On the association between chronic inactivity and poor health. Ramazzini urged that workers should at least exercise on holidays

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Exercise, Science, Ill Health

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• I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out.

  Devon Werkheiser

  Sweet, Work Out, Teeth

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• If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th century’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, what does it mean that I’m impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday?

  David Rakoff

  Spiritual, Religious, Father

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• It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.

  Claire Holden Rothman

  War, Generosity, Hopeful

  Claire Holden Rothman (2011). “Heart Specialist”, p.198, Oneworld Publications

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• Thanksgiving is coming. I wonder what the holiday will be like at Dog the Bounty Hunter’s house—obviously, they’ll have a turkey with all-white meat.

  Chelsea Handler

  Dog, Turkeys, White

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• I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Singing, Desire, Records

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• It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

  Anton Chekhov

  Recovery, People, Sick

  "The Story of an Unknown Man". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1893.

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• It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.

  Martin Amis

  Home, Writing, Weather

  "The Sadistic Muse". Interview with Laura Miller, February 10, 1998.

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• I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.

  Chris Thile

  Three, Celebrate, Telluride

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• CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.

  Hunter Tylo

  Kids, People, Safety

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• I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Games, Training, Schedules

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• I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

  Jill Dando

  Couple, Moving, Past

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• I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.

  Brad Goreski

  Party, Giving, Feelings

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• Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Two, Cracks, Pecans

  Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.44, Macmillan

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• I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.

  Jim Dine

  Grateful, Artist, Want

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• The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

  Stanley Elkin

  Men, Peculiar, Eating Alone

  Stanley Elkin (1967). “Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers”

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• My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

  Honor Blackman

  Father, Rain, Shelter

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• Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

  Booth Tarkington

  Christmas, Children, Dancing

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.82, Booklassic

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• I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

  Bob Iger

  Singers, Way, Eras

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• I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

  Maria Shriver

  Kids, Night, People

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2008.

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• My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Drama, Athens, Able

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• Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either.  Money loves people that have great work ethic.

  Grant Cardone

  People, Work Ethic, Schedules

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• A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

  Ray Brown

  Yards, Buyers, Kicks

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