Weekend Quotes - Page 32

• I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

  Richard Davies

  Retirement, Golf, Games

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• If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

  Rick Mercer

  Nuts, Long, Tea

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

  Michael Moore

  People, Want, Facts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Real, People, Challenges

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• Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Nice, Book, Thinking

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• A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

  Robert M. Gates

  Crazy, Book, Reading

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• The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Two, Guy

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• Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.

  Ivanka Trump

  Jobs, Real, Night

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• I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Pie, Boston

  "The Real Tina Fey" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Falling In Love, Taken, Years

  Chetan Bhagat's speech given at the orientation program for the new batch of MBA students, www.chetanbhagat.com. July 24, 2008.

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• Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

  Arundhati Roy

  Powerful, War, Fighting

  Arundhati Roy (2004). “Public Power in the Age of Empire”, p.39, Seven Stories Press

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• The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

  Ann Wigmore

  Motivational, Powerful, Food

  Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.9, Penguin

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• When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.

  Wolfgang Ketterle

  Running, Thinking, Discovery

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• Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

  Pamela Ribon

  Holiday, Sweaters, Arms

  Pamela Ribon (2003). “Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

  Nora Roberts

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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• I jog up to the Hollywood sign every weekend. It's fun and what a view!

  Ariana Grande

  Fun, Views, Hollywood

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