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• I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

  Elliott Smith

  Mississippi, Floats

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• I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a 'strong' chicken she bought two weeks ago. The register tape also runs out just before her sub-total. In the public restroom, I always stand behind the teen-ager who is changing into her band uniform for a parade and doesn't emerge until she has combed the tassels on her boots, shaved her legs, and recovered her contact lens from the commode.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Strong, Two

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.9, Fawcett

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• I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

  Nathan Lane

  Joining, Born, Homosexual

  "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.

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• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Queens, Dresses, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Memorial Day, War, Technology

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even in the White House. And you could say the same of Duterte in the Philippines and of Putin. They're parodies of masculinity. They're hyper-masculine, but they're also totally unsure of their masculinity, and they parade it around.

  Stephen Marche

  White, Wife, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

  Orville Dewey

  Sympathy, Command, Misfortunes

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• Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Memorial, Victory

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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• we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

  Gene Tierney

  Jobs, Player, Brass Bands

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

  David Lee Roth

  Rain, Vans, Van Halen

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

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• People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

  Mardy Grothe

  Pride, People, Holiness

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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• And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Victory, Triumph

  Robert M. Gates (2011). “From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents an”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

  George Orwell

  Song, Military, Lectures

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

  Garry Trudeau

  Day Well Spent, Passing, Monitoring

  Interview with David Plotz, www.slate.com. October 25, 2010.

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• A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic.

  Demetri Martin

  People, Looks, Excited

  Twitter post from Oct 17, 2013

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• With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

  Adam Smith

  Life, Success, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 11 (1776)

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• I'll sit down for an hour or two a few days a week in a quiet place and brainstorm. The earlier in the day, the better, before the parade of distractions starts.

  Ted Alexandro

  Two, Quiet, Distraction

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I hope they're present in their lives and feel some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in the world have been through a lack of empathy. If you can identify with someone else and empathise with someone else, then activism is a short step away, she explained in an interview with Parade.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mistake, Thinking, Empathy

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• In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Inspirational, Peace, School

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2003). “The Fifth Book of Peace”, Knopf

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• When Ive ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasnt caught much, share.

  Bryan Batt

  Kids, Eye, Elderly

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• All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

  Asher Brown Durand

  Artist, Color, Achievement

  Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd

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• Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.

  N.D. Wilson

  Rip, Turtles, Broken

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• Yesterday, after the Thanksgiving parade, Donald Trump appeared at Macy's to promote his new line of fragrances and business suits. Unfortunately, there were high winds and Trump's hair nearly killed two people.

  Conan O'Brien

  Hair, Wind, Two

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• Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?

  Bob Merrill

  Rain, Rainy Day, Rainy

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