Celebrate Quotes - Page 18

• I want men and women to both feel a part in the flourishment of female power. So I want to celebrate that power that women have, that they acquired and are still acquiring all over the world. And it's kind of my way of joining the movement and bringing positive attention to an overgrowing awareness of females everywhere who are breaking the mold.

  Zella Day

  Men, Mold, Female

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Goal, Community, Tree

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.

  Neal Barnard

  Dog, Animal, Smell

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate.

  Jill Soloway

  People, Trauma, Anti Semitism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The most beautiful women I know are passionate, curious, funny and have a deep sense of purpose and they are all over 70! Finding these qualities in myself, and celebrating them in other women is the starting place of being Gorgeous for Good.

  Sophie Heyman Uliano

  Beautiful, Quality, Purpose

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• And what I tell people is this - as a citizen of this country, there are certain rights that are given to you. Officer Encinia's decision to forcibly remove Sandy from her vehicle, which predicated on the fact that he asked her to do something - he did not lawfully order her to do something - to which she responded with a question. And for that - for that - I celebrate her because during a time where so many people would have remained silent she stood up for herself, and she invoked the rights that are due to her, and that is not unlawful.

  Sharon Cooper

  Country, Rights, Order

  "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

  Anthea Turner

  Lucky, Contracts, Late

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• My daughter decided to embrace and celebrate who she was. She was a size 2 at one time, but she decided she didn't want to be hungry anymore. I think that's how you turn it around. Today, more and more designers are recognizing how lucrative that market is.

  Beverly Johnson

  Daughter, Thinking, Want

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Abbie Hoffman's inspiration was, in a sense, inadvertent. I wanted to do something to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Woodstock at the time, and it just happened that Abbie died the same year. Hoffman was always an inspiration to me, for his activism and execution of that activism, and any of his books will give you a guide and a map to creating almost anything, if you apply it to what it is you want to do.

  Richard Cotovsky

  Book, Inspiration, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There is reason to smile and celebrate when you win, but when you struggle, that is about laughter. That is the pathos that is rooted in all comedy. And business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Pain, Laughter, Struggle

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I didn't like the tone of Steve Jobs [movie] [2015] at all. It was very ugly, kind of rude. I didn't laugh, it was very uncomfortable. It seemed like all the worst moments of his life. It was very critical of Steve Jobs as a person, and it didn't make for a comfortable viewing experience for me. But I guess I don't know who Steve Jobs is, and I guess I didn't know what I was gonna go see. I thought it was gonna be celebrating the rise of Apple, but it wasn't that at all.

  Bun B

  Jobs, Apples, Worst Moments

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• It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new kind of American reality, one that takes diversity for granted. It doesn't celebrate diversity, actually, it just says: this is how we live now.

  Teju Cole

  Book, Reading, Reality

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then, this is a hostile verdict and the international fame is warranted after all (given that Mann modeled his protagonist so closely on himself, it would be quite odd if he had intended Aschenbach's literary inferiority to be a fixed part of the interpretation).

  Philip Kitcher

  Fall, Style, Narrators

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You don't expect a 94-year-old white guy to pick "Dope," which was an awesome movie not even close to being considered by the Academy. And that's what it's all about, like, promoting people who might not otherwise get promoted and celebrating people who might not get celebrated.

  Russell Simmons

  Dope, Years, White

  "Russell Simmons Has Your Oscars Alternative". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. February 28, 2016.

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• On Valentine's Day, couples in Calgary can celebrate their love for each other with couples' nude yoga - great way to get in shape and see a side of your partner you've never seen before and never want to see again.

  Peter Sagal

  Couple, Valentine, Yoga

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've never been a fan of bands that go out and celebrate their age, I'd rather be celebrated for being relevant.

  Jacob Bannon

  Age, Fans, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.

  John Darnielle

  Accomplishment, Style, Milestone

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.

  Sara Bareilles

  Way, Wonderful

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

  Alan Palomo

  Writing, Inspire, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music: "It's not where you got it from, it's where you take it." To me, that's just an integral part of why I even bother making music. I don't mind that I've created an identity around what I do.

  Alan Palomo

  Thinking, Mind, Identity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic.

  Alasdair MacLean

  Voice, Forever, Mourning

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, Dark, Gay

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We're looking at such enormous complexity and variety that it makes a mockery of "celebrating diversity." In the L.A. of the future, no one will need to say, "Let's celebrate diversity." Diversity is going to be a fundamental part of our lives. That's what it's going to mean to be modern.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, Diversity, Needs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

  Ian Astbury

  Winter, Spirit, Celebration

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I have this huge, huge fan base of people who've never seen a Broadway show, but I think it's a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you're getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.

  Tyler Perry

  Thinking, People, Fans

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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