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• For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.

  Ivana Trump

  Summer, Home, Years

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• The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

  John of the Cross

  Song, Joy, Swim

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• My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen...

  Morris Chestnut

  Football, Morning, Ideas

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

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• Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.

  B. C. Forbes

  Summer, Dog, Rip

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• I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

  Jeannette Walls

  Black, Bakers, World

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• I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.

  Hank Stuever

  Grandma, Thinking, Ribbons

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Holiday and Holy Day, Christmas is more than a yule log, holly or tree. It is more than natural good cheer and the giving of gifts. Christmas is even more than the feast of the home and of children, the feast of love and friendship. It is more than all of these together. Christmas is Christ, the Christ of justice and charity, of freedom and peace.

  Francis Spellman

  Cheer, Children, Home

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• I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Book, Clothes, Work Ethic

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Fun, Distance, Home

  "Why we travel" by Jonah Lehrer, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.

  Questlove

  Hate, Sound, Apartment

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Wall, Sunshine

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.125

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• Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more than most folks, so the reunion each winter keeps me in the holiday spirit for a full year. And there are always a few pieces out in my house whatever the month.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Christmas, Passion, Winter

  Mary Engelbreit (2003). “Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever”, p.27, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Men, Shadow

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 6-9 of leaf beauty. of cloud beauty. of ideas of relation”, p.233

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• There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Weekend, President

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• I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

  Robbie Robertson

  Kids, Years, Ideas

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• In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Country, Athlete, Winning

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I enjoy been on holidays because you can do whatever you want and people can't say anything to you.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  People, Say Anything, Want

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.

  John Waters

  Wine, Comedy, My Favorite

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• My favorite time of year is October, Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I know that watching horror movies was such a special thing to me as a child and my only dream is that I get to make it feel like Halloween all year round for other kids, for other weirdos like me.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Dream, Children, Halloween

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• As a comedian, especially one that works as much as I do, there is a lot of sacrifice. People don't see that I'm away from my family 46 weeks out of the year. I miss all the birthdays and anniversaries and holidays.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Sacrifice, Years, People

  "Gabriel Iglesias – The Fluffy Movie". Interview with Kiko Martinez, www.cinesnob.net. July 25, 2014.

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• I'm never home. I miss birthdays. I miss holidays. I miss anniversaries. I miss special moments. I'm not always there for important times, because I'm out on the road trying to make people laugh. I give up my privacy. I give up the ability to walk somewhere and relax.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Giving Up, Home, People

  "Gabriel Iglesias talks about 'The Fluffy Movie', his life and cake". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, www.phoenixfilmfestival.com. July 22, 2014.

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• As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Book, Drs

  "The lady and the chimps". Wanderlust Travel Magazine Interview, www.wanderlust.co.uk. April 10, 2009.

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• Most Christmas carols have no obvious religious content, or at least that's noticeable to most people. I mean, it is almost by definition, a cultural phenomenon, all these songs, even though they point to this very religious holiday. They're not religious songs in effect anymore.

  Howard Dean

  Song, Religious, Mean

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.

  John Richard Reid

  Should Have, People, Week

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• I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.

  Patti Davis

  Uncles, Couple, Aunt

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