Celebrate Quotes - Page 19

• No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Matter, Disaster, Wells

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• America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.

  Joseph Boyden

  Country, Past, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There were two main points I wanted to get across in Valentine, the first being that yes, Valentine's Day is an arbitrary day, but why would you not take that excuse to celebrate love? The second point. . .since it is just an arbitrary day. . .why not treat every day like Valentine's Day?

  Kina Grannis

  Valentine, Two, Firsts

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• Scotland has always been independent. We have our own legal system, our own culture; I don't see the issue. We are different and I think we should celebrate those differences within the union. I can see what would be lost, but don't necessarily see what would be gained by breaking away. What does upset me is that I can't vote in Scotland.

  Damian Barr

  Independent, Thinking, Scotland

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Christian, Names, People

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I need to do a concert to celebrate David Bowie's electronic music. And in so doing, I'm not taking a step back, I'm taking a step forward and presenting it in its entirety so people can understand this type of visionary.

  Carlos Alomar

  People, Needs, Visionaries

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.

  Valerie June

  Believe, Voice, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.

  Coco Rocha

  Girl, Unique, Different

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• We should celebrate more often politicians who stand up and say things that are unpopular.

  Philip Davies

  Politician, Should

  House of Commons Hansard Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. January 18, 2016.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist, she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Mom, Attitude, Thinking

  "Q&A: Emily Ratajkowski on 'Blurred Lines' and Her Song of the Summer". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. July 22, 2013.

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