Weekend Quotes - Page 21

• Something big happened over the weekend. Something that affects everybody, all over the world. George Clooney got married.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  World, Married, Bigs

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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, Holiday, President

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• I was an 80's/90's baby so you went to the movie theater every weekend and there was one on, whether it was Stallone, Van Damme, Seagal or Schwarzenegger himself.

  Channing Tatum

  Baby, Schwarzenegger, Vans

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down.

  Brian Aldiss

  Lying, Here I Am, Bed

  "A Report On Probability AI: The Brian Aldiss Connection". Interview with Andrew Darlington, www.zone-sf.com.

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• After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Daddy, Perspective

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. October 9, 2009.

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• You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?

  Stephen L. Carter

  Friday, Falling In Love, Monday

  "The Emperor of Ocean Park". Book by Stephen L. Carter, 2002.

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• So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Growing Up, Fun

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

  Ali Larter

  Reading, Relaxation, Cooks

  "Obsessed with Cooking, M.J., and Being a Manny" by Rebecca Guinness, www.vanityfair.com. April 24, 2009.

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• The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.

  Alan Shepard

  Couple, Space, People

  "The Day the Earth Stood Still - On Film, Anyway" by Malcolm Howard, The Record, p. B08, April 30, 1987.

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• My wife Staci made me go to a wedding last weekend...If it weren’t for her, I’d be happy.

  Stephan Pastis

  Wife, Lasts, Made

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• Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, Hangover, Heart

  "Depression and Depression: Paul Krugman, Leonard Cohen and St. Paul" by Christopher Cocca, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

  Denise Van Outen

  Long, Half, Four

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• Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Morning, Up Early, Giving

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• President Obama said in an interview over the weekend that he really misses being anonymous. He said, 'I miss Saturday mornings rolling out of bed and not shaving, going to the market...' Be careful what you wish for, 2012 is just around the corner!

  Jay Leno

  Morning, Missing, Wish

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• Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, my perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.

  Jimmy Carr

  Coffee, Perfect, Population

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• What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what gets you out if bed in the mornings, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Gratitude, Falling In Love, Morning

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• You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

  John Heilemann

  Running, Lonely, Home

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• Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends.

  Tamora Pierce

  Writing, Important, Taught

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• Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads.

  Clay Shirky

  Years, Ideas, Creating

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• You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Dublin, Oscars, Hell

  Daniel Day-Lewis' Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 26, 1990.

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• One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Promise, Complicated Relationship

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• A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.

  Sharon Begley

  Coffee, Impact, Earth Day

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• I'm not worried about the weekend, I'm worried about Saturday.

  Pete Sampras

  Tennis, Worried, Saturday

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• Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!

  Brad Pitt

  Letting Go, Nihilism, Trying

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• The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.

  Larry Rosenberg

  Practice, Pay, Months

  Larry Rosenberg (2004). “Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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