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I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
Jon Stewart

Everyone, House, Took

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Lose, View, Dignity

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
Mason Cooley

Love, Game, Winners

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch

Men, Lives, Days

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Robert Anton Wilson

May, Means, Production

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Desmond Tutu

Religion, Family, God

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Sean Penn

Wonderful, Mediocrity, Stuff

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Charles Baudelaire

Religion, Sad, Long

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
Joe Biden

Society, Long, Community

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.
Marco Rubio

Success, Nature, Character

For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
Nathan Deal

Health, May, Again

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Religion, Attitude, Sex

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
Barbra Streisand

School, Woman, Law

The mouthier I got, the more I'd be celebrated.
Katherine Heigl

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
Lawrence Welk

Music, Family, Business

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
Russell Baker

Humor, Fun, Lost

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
Rachel Weisz

Envy, Thought, Around

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Science, Problem, Means

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
James Taylor

Good, Experience, Possible

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
LeRoy Neiman

Life, Love, History

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.
Lewis Thomas

Long, Real, Self

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.
Glenn Hughes

Good, Famous, Bad

The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury - so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder.
Wilbur Smith

Work, Story, Felt

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
C. Wright Mills

Power, Person, Wealth

I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.
Ezra Miller

Here, Sexuality, Criticized

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.
Mark Messier

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.
Jared Leto

Experience, Try, Around

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
Martin Amis

Good, Great, Fashion

'Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.
Busy Philipps

Show, Freaks, Geeks

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
George Savile

Business, Reason, Despised

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