Christmas Present Quotes - Page 2

• The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

  Michael Scheuer

  Christmas, Christian, War

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• The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Children, Struggle

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Empire”, p.263, Macmillan

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• Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.

  Brendan Morrison

  Kids, Hockey, Nhl

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• My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet.

  John Nettles

  Careful

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Fun, Thinking, Goal

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Christmas, Children, Giving

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• My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

  CM Punk

  Mother, Dad, Real

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• I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

  Jessica Chastain

  Keeping Secrets, Waiting, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

  Robin Trower

  Christmas, Guitar

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• Keep the change, Gin," McCallister said in a smarmy, mocking voice. "Consider it an early Christmas present." "Aw," I drawled. "A whopping thirteen cents. You're too kind, Jonah. Why, you'd put Ebezener Scrooge to shame with your bighearted generosity.

  Jennifer Estep

  Voice, Generosity, Scrooge

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• I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

  Paul Ryan

  Giving, Atlas

  "Young, Wonky, and Proud of It" by Katherine Mangu-Ward, www.weeklystandard.com. March 17, 2003.

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• A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Home, Tchaikovsky, Cds

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• People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Christmas, Book, Writing

  "Bryce Courtenay, Popular Australian Novelist, Dies at 79" by Bruce Weber, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 2012.

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• As part of my Christmas present I'd be giving chickens to a family in Nepal through the Heifer Foundation. I think they expanded my world when I was young to know sort of the other issues that were going on globally.

  Serinda Swan

  Thinking, Issues, Giving

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• I've said before: If Osama bin Laden was a Christian, Iraq was the Christmas present he always wanted but never expected his parents to give. It validated for the Muslim world virtually all of bin Laden's rhetoric. He had always said the Americans will destroy any strong Muslim regime, and we did.

  Michael Scheuer

  Christian, Strong, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work.

  Molly Sims

  Hard Work, Focus, Made

  "Molly Sims on Fashion, Motherhood and Staying Healthy an Interview by Robert Piper". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm kind of a tech person, a nerd. I've always been the person who, when we got our Christmas presents, knew how to work them and set them up; the racecars, whatever. Sit me down in front of a computer program, I'll be fine.

  Alexandra Richards

  Nerd, Kind, Computer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.

  James Howe

  War, Clueless, Mean

  James Howe (2005). “Totally Joe”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

  Amanda Schull

  Littles, Inbox, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• [T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Blood, Imagination

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• For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.

  John Malkovich

  Baseball, Thinking, Mind

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

  Pico Iyer

  Christmas, Air, Japan

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Dec 20, 2015

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• You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Black, Velvet

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• It is surprising that people are snapping photos and stuff and then putting them on the internet. For me, it is like, "Why would you want to do that?" It would be like knowing what your Christmas presents were before Christmas morning.

  Michael Shannon

  Morning, Knowing, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Thank You, Dog, Writing

  "Obama's debt expert yells at kids" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. March 07, 2011.

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