Celebrate Quotes - Page 11

• I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that's what yoga's about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.

  Brett Dennen

  Pain, Moving, Yoga

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• If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.

  Martha Beck

  Powerful, Moving, Small Changes

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• Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

  Felix Adler

  Anniversary, Country, People

  Felix Adler (1926). “The Fiftieth anniversary of the ethical movement, 1876-1926”

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• I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.

  Richard Rogers

  Quality, Way, Just Saying

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• It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Independent, Years

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• I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.

  Squidward Tentacles

  Believe, Holiday, House

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• In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions, become a group that becomes a group that celebrates sports heroes and entertainment heroes. There's no room left for kids to see even a little bit of the opportunities to really, really get excited about becoming an inventor, an engineer, or a scientist, a problem solver.

  Dean Kamen

  Sports, Hero, Kids

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.

  Sean Penn

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana.

  Narendra Modi

  Yoga, Training, Mind

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• We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

  John Piper

  Powerful, Blessed, Names

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• You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

  Scott Walker

  4th Of July, Government, America

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• You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.

  Neil Tennant

  Should

  "Pet Shop Boys: cab drivers ask us if we've retired". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.

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• I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

  Amy Sedaris

  Journey, Thinking, Laughing

  Interview with David Wolinsky, tv.avclub.com. May 6, 2008.

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• "Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

  Laura Esquivel

  Soup, Pot, Knows

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• Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Couple, Cutting, America

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Own who you are and celebrate it.

  RuPaul

  Who You Are

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• Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

  Mel Brooks

  Boys, Greatness, Men

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• I was always considered the athletic one, and that translated into big. I was the big one. Thankfully, so many more body types are accepted these days. What I've been trying to do, and I'm seeing more now with my girlfriends, too, is celebrate other people.

  Brooke Shields

  Girlfriend, People, Athletic

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• Fans of different races, castes, ethnicities and religions who together celebrate their diversity by uniting for a common national cause. They are my foundation, they are my family. I will play my cricket for them. Their spirit is the true spirit of cricket. With me are all my people. I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Buddhist, Race, Ethnicity

  "The Spin's cricket moments of 2011" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2011.

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• We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Birthday, Anniversary, Book

  "Should I break up with my long-term friend?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2013.

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• As the most romantic day of the year approaches, and as a brand that is uniquely male, we wanted to find out how men really feel about Valentines Day, and how they want to celebrate it. The Johnnie Walker Blue Label Luxury Survey tells us what gifts men really want versus what gifts women think men want for Valentine's Day - and the reality is that we're not as far apart as we like to think.

  Christopher Parsons

  Valentines Day, Reality, Men

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• Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.

  Christine Bell

  Taken, Nursing, Nurse

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• Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human -- autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict between our individualistic and our sociality. It celebrates the commonality of our species while simultaneously setting us apart as unique individuals.

  Greg Graffin

  Creativity, Independent, Unique

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• I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

  Josh Duhamel

  Home, Adoption, Pet

  "Saving Pets’ Lives Starts With Adoption" by Josh Duhamel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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