Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Christmas Quotes from famous persons: Johnny Mathis, Garry Moore, Helen George, T. S. Eliot, Imelda May. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Christmas Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.
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Fans talk to me about how ‘Country Christmas’ has become a holiday tradition for them and that they all watch to start their holiday season. To be a part of people’s holiday traditions is a real joy.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.
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Isn’t that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.
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I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
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I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.
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There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.
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I grew up in Morocco. I was born a Muslim, and, every year, I celebrated Christmas in a big white house in the country, halfway between Meknes and Fez.
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Christmas is my favorite time of the year.
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I wouldn’t recommend young kids see ‘Speedway Junkie.’ It’s definitely an age-appropriate movie – dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.
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I’d love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It’s hard to write a Christmas song.
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What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.
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I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church… on the church bus going home and Christmas plays.
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I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.
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Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren’t for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn’t bother me a bit.
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Once I found out that I was playing ‘Deathlok,’ I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.
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To me, the most important thing is to wear something that I love and feel comfortable in, and Christmas is a great opportunity to get one of my old favourites out.
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I don’t think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.
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There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
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I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the ’70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with ‘Christmas Rap.’
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One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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Seeing lights being put up along the street and these colored lanterns called parols being put up at people’s houses makes Christmas in Philippines magical.
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My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That’s all I wanted every year.
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I put up my Christmas tree entirely too early. I’m one of those people.
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I think if you buy the ‘Christmas Queens 2′ album, there will be songs you love and songs you hate, just like every other album.
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Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that’s it. It’s a task I love.
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Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
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And of course there’s so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it’s obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.
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Lyndon B. Johnson thought he’d have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas – for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).
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Sometimes I wonder: What are the children thinking? And sometimes I wonder why the hell I’m not buying a tree like the other neighbors. After all, there is no mention in Christianity of Christmas trees, and even if there were – is there any good reason why I shouldn’t be buying some red stockings?
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I love Christmas movies.
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The best Christmas that l had was probably when I got my Xbox. When I first got an Xbox, it was, like, the very first Xbox when it came out.
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I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.
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My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.
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Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, ‘I just got a guitar for Christmas, let’s start a band.’ And you can hear the difference.
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The window in which it’s acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald‘s 1960 record ‘Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas’ is short, so I keep it in heavy rotation throughout the festive season.
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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
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Christmas Day itself hasn’t always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that – I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.
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My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.
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I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn’t usually in Christmas songs.
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Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!
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Wonderful Christmas Time’ is a Christmas song but it was supposed to be an attempt at a traditional song.
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For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.
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So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.
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When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.
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I love that Christmas lasts for so long. And I love that everybody still believes that magic is going to happen. It’s a chance to be reminded that being with people is the most important thing.
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As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl‘s pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things.
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When I first started shooting ‘Sharpe,’ back in the early 1990s, I’d kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August – Evie wasn’t even born then – and I wouldn’t see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times.
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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom’s home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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Santa Claus has the right idea – visit people only once a year.
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‘A Christmas Carol’ has been described as the most perfect of Dickens‘s works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
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Christmas Day is a big day for NBA basketball.
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Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.
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I remember when I was working at Sprint, I’d work on my birthday, New Year’s Day, and even Christmas Eve. I’m just used to working on my birthday, so I’ll be celebrating it afterward.
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The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
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Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.
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Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
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I absolutely adore Christmas.
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We grew up probably having as hard a life as anybody. A lot of times, we didn’t have any food on the table. At Christmas, everybody else would always get something nice, but we’d get one T-shirt or one shirt… So I want to take care of Mom and Dad… and I’m having a damn good time doing it.
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Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.
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Tom Petty sent me this amazing 12-string Rickenbacker, and ‘Not for You’ was the first time I used it. It was like a Christmas present. One day, it just showed up at my door. I called him up and thanked him.
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I like day-after-Christmas omelets, day-after Christmas pizzas… Or you take croissant rolls, put gravy on top, turkey, mashed potatoes, cheese, more gravy. That sounds good!
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I celebrate everything. We always had a menorah and a Christmas tree – not for any reason other than we always liked celebrating things.
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It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
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The Christmas tree goes up on December 1. I love it.
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Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.
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‘A Christmas Story’ has become such a special part of the holiday season for so many families.
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Don’t give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.
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Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It’s a general clean-out.
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As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.
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We only open a couple of presents on Christmas morning; we’re all about the stockings – we even get them for the dogs!
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When you’re involved in those big-budget movies, there’s a lot of hype: ‘Oh this is gonna be a big hit!’ And ‘A Christmas Story’ wasn’t. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.
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I got given a pair of Christmas socks with penguins on. They know you’re obviously not going to wear them. I think they do it just to annoy you, to be honest.
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I love all things Christmas.
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‘Use Somebody’ I posted – it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video.
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I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
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I make personal appearances around the country. I’m starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I’m doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
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I love giving gifts. It’s almost like I don’t open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas ’cause I want to give everyone else their presents.
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The Christmas genre is a field that’s been well-ploughed.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don’t know when to come down.
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It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
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My parents still treat Christmas like I’m thirteen years old.
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When it comes to referring to Dickens’s life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.
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The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in or what kind of a year you’ve had – it’s a fresh start.
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I turned the Gloucester Christmas lights on and our local Newent lights on, so everyone recognises me now. It is a completely different life for me.
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That is what Christmas should be about, I think – togetherness and playfulness. It’s like a game.
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Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.
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I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that I’m having a good time. I can’t really write anywhere else.
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‘A Christmas Story’ is my favorite Christmas movie.
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Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.
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I was in ‘Christmas with the Crawfords’ with Joey Arias. I did that for six years, so I have a holiday show mentality a little bit.
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Halloween is bigger than Christmas in America. I’ve experienced it in New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and if you’re in the right neighbourhood, every house is decorated with spooky ghosts, spider webs, and jack-o-lanterns.
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He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
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God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God’s work to save the world.
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The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.
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My daughter is 15. None of her friends know who the hell Chris Rea is, but they know that song – as soon as it comes on, they start singing it. I’ve played with everyone from Status Quo to Talk Talk, but nothing impresses them as much as the fact that I play on ‘Driving Home for Christmas.’
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My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!
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You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it’s marvellous, and it’s not going away.
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I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.
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I’m Jewish, so I don’t really do Christmas gifts, and Hanukkah is not as big a deal as gifts are concerned, so I never actually give gifts.
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I’ve always been the one who is more enthusiastic about Christmas than my family. I regress to a child state, chanting carols.
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The word of God is very important to Christmas. For unto us a child was born, and we should be reminded of how Christ’s amazing journey came to be.
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don’t really care how many books I’ve sold.
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A simplified Christmas isn’t about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
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I really want a Christmas in New York one year, when it’s snowing. Like, it’s Christmas morning, and you have a fight with someone, and you run down the street, and it’s snowing, and you can’t find them.
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The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.
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Christmas is a time of year that’s so romantic.
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From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money – either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.
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I remember my first Christmas with Leeds, training Christmas Day. I wasn’t old enough to drive yet – so I had to get picked up and taken in!
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We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can’t remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn’t include books.
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I spent pretty much all my wages from ‘No Country For Old Men‘ on a pair of cowboy boots. They’re ridiculous. It’s like wearing two Christmas trees on my legs.
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My father was born on Christmas Day in 1934. He grew up in what is now part of North Korea. When the Korean War began, my father was 16, and he found passage on an American refugee ship,thinking he’d be gone for just a few days, but he never saw his mother or his sister again.
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Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
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‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ are movies we love with magic in them.
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Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, ‘Now I’m going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.’
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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At school, I’d be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing with my grandfather. The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree; you know how that goes.
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There’s a lot of movies that aren’t all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn’t the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in ‘Auntie Mame,’ where she’s in the department store, sewing at Macy’s, and she doesn’t know how to do anything but fill out a form as ‘cash on delivery!’
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I loved ‘White Christmas’ for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.
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There are three things that I’m addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I’m addicted to the cheer moment. ‘Librarians’ has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and ‘Librarians’ is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved.
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Working on ‘Nightmare Before Christmas,’ I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, ‘You can’t have a main character that’s got no eyeballs!’ ‘How is anybody going to feel for somebody with just eyesockets?’ You know? So, it’s those kind of things that really wear you down.
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I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.
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Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
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I throw a Christmas party at my house. It’s not really a Christmas party, because I don’t want to call it a Christmas party. But let’s just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
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It’s fun when you start a movie, because it’s kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping… you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.
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Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
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Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
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I’ve taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.
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‘Bond‘ was like Christmas: can’t wait for it to come around. Being in the films brought me to a global audience, and I have had the opportunity to meet incredible people.
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During the weeks before Christmas, though it’s not always possible, we make an effort to keep the kids away from shopping malls and stores. We also deliberately choose cards and decorations that have religious significance.
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I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn’t done it.
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I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it’s a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.
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I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.
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A tradition I have on Christmas morning – my son has always been the one that cooks the breakfast and I am always the one in the evening attempting to cook the beautiful Christmas dinner. And during the day we just have a nice snore, a nice relax and watch a movie.
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Me and my girlfriend don’t have any family in Ipswich, so we were thinking of what we could do to fill our time on Christmas Day. We thought about feeding the homeless and we phoned up the church that we eventually went to and asked if we could help.
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Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it’s important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.
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When I was really young, I loved the movie ‘White Christmas’ – I still do – and I thought Rosemary Clooney was so pretty. When I was, like, nine, I would tell people, ‘You know who I kind of look like? Rosemary Clooney.’
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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
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At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.
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It may be a cliche, but it’s true – the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
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I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.
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Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it’s important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.
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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
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My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.
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That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
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I actually feel sorry for people who have nothing to do on Christmas Day other than watch an NBA game.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.
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Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.
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When ‘I’m Sorry’ came out and became such a huge hit, that made ‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree‘ start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.
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My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It’s pretty much family tradition every time we get together for Christmas and major holidays to sing. Our family time is centered around the food and a little bit of performing for one another.
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One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
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‘Driving Home For Christmas’ is just a great Christmas song because people are in their cars and driving home.
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Christmas is a Christian holiday, and any self-respecting person of another religion should not celebrate a holiday that they don’t believe in. Clearly, Christ is in the name of the holiday, so there should be a belief in Him.
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It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
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One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me – that of going up to town and ‘doing a show.’
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My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.
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My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
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I have to confess that I’ve never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it’s known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It’s mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I’m also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers.
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He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
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I’ve been in Chicago for every Christmas of my life.
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Christmas is never going to go away, and it’s always going to be there. And there’s always room for one more Christmas song, I think.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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The real reason Jews don’t have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ ‘Silver Bells’ and ‘The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)’ were all written by Jews.
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Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.
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My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie in my house.
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It’s more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it’s exactly what you want. It’s a great feeling, and there’s nothing like it.
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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.
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Things change; your priorities change in life. So I’d never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I’ve got two kids, and it’s selfish.
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One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the ‘Nutcracker’ or ‘A Christmas Carol.’
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I do get approached every day by people who say, ‘Why don’t you make more movies?’ I don’t really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant.
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I always go to my mom’s house for Christmas.
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It’s quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
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Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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My family, as you can probably guess, was more into Christmas cookies and not so much the fruitcake.
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Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show – in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.
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The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there’s comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas.
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If I’m ever stuck on the M25 – the ‘Road to Hell’ – I’ll wind the window down and start singing, ‘I’m driving home for Christmas’ at people in cars alongside. They love it. It’s like giving them a present.
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I got up one Christmas morning and we didn’t have nothing to eat. We didn’t have an apple, we didn’t have an orange, we didn’t have a cake, we didn’t have nothing.
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
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Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
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My dad’s a firefighter, so I know what it’s like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
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Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it’s even summertime.
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I love Christmas. I’m totally the ‘decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early’ guy.
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The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don’t want to watch it 15 times.
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I like to think I’m like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.
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When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her… and she loved it. Of course she did – she’s my mum.
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Christmas sits like a black hole on the calendar. Just try scheduling a meeting at work the month of December.
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Somehow we just don’t make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.
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I would say ‘Gremlins,’ ‘Die Hard,’ and ‘Black Christmas’ are all pretty good Christmas movies that aren’t really about Christmas.
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We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
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Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer – and I’d never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior’s love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.
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I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don’t like is the cold – so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.
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I worked every day – Christmas Eve, birthdays – trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it – starting a business is not just for Christmas.
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Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
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I’m a physicist, and we have something called Moore‘s Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.
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My little brother and grandma told me I could sing. I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church… on the church bus going home and Christmas plays.
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In ‘White Christmas,’ I wasn’t the main part.
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My son was 8 or 9, and he really wanted a gun. It was Christmas, and I said to my husband, ‘It’s time for a gun.’
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I’ve never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
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I want to go to Lapland and see Father Christmas, and now I’ve got a child, so I’ve got an excuse. Also, I’d like to go to South America especially as I’m now living in that part of the world, in L.A. now. And I must get down to Mexico.
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Christmas is relentless. It’s around the clock. I sit with my little ones in front of the TV screen, and we watch movie after movie after movie.
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In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.
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My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.
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Frank Capra’s grandson was a second Assistant Director on ‘Christmas Vacation.’
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My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they’ve loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.
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Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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I think ‘Elf’ is funny, with Will Ferrell. That’s a great Christmas movie.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I love the English league. I think it’s the best in the world, but I have a problem with Christmas and New Year’s Day because you have to play.
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The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy‘s death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas.
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Without social networks, you’re not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you’re not getting any bite.
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I love presents, But since I’ve gotten older, I haven‘t really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.
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The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.
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I’m totally the ‘decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early’ guy. I’ve just always been that way.
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To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.
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I’m not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.
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I love the royal family. I even got up in the middle of the night to watch Kate and William’s wedding. And I never miss the Queen’s speech on Christmas Day. I feel it’s my duty as an English-born woman to watch.
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I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
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At the beginning of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way – and always will be.
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For me, hearing my voice is sometimes a little nauseating, especially at Christmas.
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It’s a sad commentary on our time – to use a phrase much favored by my late father – that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.
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What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
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I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn’t going to get it all.
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Christmas brings us great music: Everything from Handel’s ‘Messiah‘ to ‘White Christmas,’ to ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.’
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Then, when I got in the military, I used to host – even in high school – I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
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We used to indulge hopelessly as a family at Christmas. When the children were little, I dressed up as Father Christmas. They knew it was a gag, but they loved it. I remember stealing into their bedrooms at 1 A.M. and filling the stockings up at the end of the bed.
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I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.
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Us Filipinos love Christmas so much that we have the longest Christmas season in the world.
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Even though I’m in this big, crazy business, I’m still just myself. I still celebrate Christmas; I still live at home.
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So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.
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I made a French film called ‘Merry Christmas’ which is a very European film. It’s a World War I piece.
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Yep, I’m a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box… but I still play with it!
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards.
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So we’re considering doing a new Christmas album, because there’s been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of ‘The Most Offensive Song Ever’ with lyrics intact.
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The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
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Leftists wage the war on Christmas using their traditional methods – government fiat and the court system. They never win voting, and they certainly don’t win in the free market, so they bravely fight their battles through big government.
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I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.
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I’m not romantic, and I don’t like Christmas.
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I hate Christmas, really. I don’t really give presents away or expect any.
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We didn’t have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.
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Christmas music is usually more concentrated pop music in a way. It’s meant to make us feel good, and it’s meant to make us like we belong somewhere.
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I’ve got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.
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The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it’s a very family-centered holiday.
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It’s a rare film that has staying power. ‘A Christmas Story’ is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people.
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The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
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People say I don’t write books, I make Christmas presents.
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The last Christmas movie I really liked was ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ probably. It’s sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it’s not without its dark moments. It still gets to me every year.
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Christmas is my favorite holiday because you spend time with family. I love the decorations, the music, and buying gifts for people. Everything about Christmas is the best.
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I think Christmas, for me, has always been about family, as cliche as that sounds.
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I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
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It’s always a wonderful time to be able to settle down by the fire, enjoy the Christmas tree and the decorations, and just spend time with the ones you love and surround yourself with the people that you don’t get to see enough throughout the year.
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‘A Christmas Story’ has always meant a lot to me personally.
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For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ – that I remembered it from childhood.
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In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn’t partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.
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I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality – you’re told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
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Just recently, I thought about how maybe I should have kept using the synthesisers more after ‘Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence’; then, I would have been a more unique soundtrack composer than I am now. It could have been my signature. But then, probably, Bertolucci would not have offered me to compose for his films.
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I love Christmas. I’m really sentimental about it. My parents made it awesome for us, and we were allowed to be kids for a long time.
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I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.
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Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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With a track like ‘White Christmas,’ everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That’s kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.
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I sang ‘Your Song’ by Elton John, and Silva Screen Records were watching. They got in touch with my agent then had the idea of the Christmas album.
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I’m going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don’t, I’ve written 14 musicals now, I don’t want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
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It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
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I did ‘Christmas Carol’ off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature.
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I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas.
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The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
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My wife’s brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you’ll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.
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I’ve always loved watches. It’s been the one thing that I’ve asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday.
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I love ‘White Christmas.’ That’s one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It’s just one of my all time favorites. And it’s hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town.
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I was in Atlanta for nine years and we never got to play on Christmas Day.
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Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.
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I was never funny. I’d be funny once a year at Christmas. I’d do impressions of how people talked and danced, but that stopped when I was about 11.
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I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
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God is in the details.
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One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It’s a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It’s awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It’s so much fun.
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My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.
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For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning… it’s a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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My favourite part of Christmas is being together as a family.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
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Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us – a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.
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Christmas for me means starting the day with ackee and saltfish, and cornbread muffins.
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Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it’s really not a very good defense – rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.
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I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?
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I love ‘O Holy Night.’ On Christmas Eve, there’s a service at the church where I grew up, and at midnight, we would always sing, ‘O Holy Night’ with candles.
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During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.
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I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas Day.
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My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it’s snowing outside.
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Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we’d go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be ‘The Happy Prince,’ ‘The Gift of the Magi’ and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,’ and I would like to keep that alive.
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I’ve got some incredible fans actually – so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They’ve got this thing called ‘Floetry’ where they all have to put in artwork. They’ve set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
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When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.
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Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
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Christmas is a great time to recommit to each other and our communities.
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At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.
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I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan‘s record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
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I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.
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I do watch ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.
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There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart – and our neighbors as ourselves.
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One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.
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Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious – at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune.
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Christmas time… is about bringing everyone together.
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That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
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We filmed part of it here at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, and then we filmed the other part of it in Oklahoma because that’s where I live. It’s called ‘Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas.’ We wanted to incorporate that I celebrate Christmas just like any other kid.
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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
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My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.
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I didn’t feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.
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The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
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In 1988, Christmas, that was my last performance because I moved to Hawaii to raise my son.
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Growing up in Northern California, I’ve only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.
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I did Christmas plays at school, but they banned me because I was messing about. And I was like, ‘Ah, why?’ Because I was getting attention, everyone was laughing at me and I was loving it, I thought, ‘This feels good!’
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Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
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South Africa is really diverse, with many cultures and 11 official languages, so there are lots of different Christmas traditions.
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We should celebrate Christmas throughout the year, but I believe the whole concept of giving was the basis of Christmas, that it was a charitable, you know, giving, and I think we got carried away with giving.
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I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with ‘A Christmas Carol’ and you’re getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
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In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.
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I love Halloween. I love Thanksgiving. I love Christmas. I love New Year’s.
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I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.
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Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It’s a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.
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There’s a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.
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My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.
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On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
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The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.
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Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
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I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played ‘Astrosmash’ for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.
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One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
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I had a year-round Christmas tree with nothing but colored vinyl 45s hanging on it, like, old Elvis records and stuff.
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The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in or what kind of a year you’ve had – it’s a fresh start.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, ‘Whoopty-doo, there’s something going on here.’
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I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that’s not the case with all people and I don’t think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.
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You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
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Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
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I’m literally obsessed with Christmas, and it’s been my dream ever since I was a little girl to make a Christmas album.
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Part of me wants to be married and have everybody around the table for Christmas. But when you’re married, your life becomes integrated solely with that person. There are too many characters running around inside me. Maybe they should all be married to somebody different.
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As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.
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I don’t have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It’s guaranteed to cure a cold.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
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I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom’s family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car – it was the late sixties – and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
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For many of us, Christmas lunch is the most special meal of the year – and I certainly want nothing but the very best for this celebration.
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Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without watching a regular season game. Some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show.
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I’d like to do a Christmas album. I’ve never done a Christmas album.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology – the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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I’m over the moon to be involved in the ‘Doctor Who‘ Christmas special. I can’t quite believe it as it’s a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It’s a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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Every St. Patrick’s Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green.
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A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.
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Christmas in L.A. is weird. There’s no snow. It’s not even cold.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I’m no better than a bag of potato chips.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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I’m bad on Valentine’s Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o’clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I’m in Toys’R’Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.
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Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.
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My mom was always trying to figure out ways to make Hanukkah exciting and compete with our neighbors the Kremps, who always had these amazing blow-out Christmas parties.
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I like, ‘I Believe In Father Christmas’ – that is one of my favorites it is a lovely composition; ‘Colder Than Winter’ as well. There are so many beautiful songs.
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As Michael Scheuer, who ran the C.I.A.’s bin Laden unit until 1999, has pointed out, if bin Laden believed in Christmas, the Iraq war would be his perfect present from Santa Claus. The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war in Afghanistan severely damaged bin Laden’s organization.
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I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
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One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I’ve even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I’ll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.
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Back in the 1950s and ’60s, J. M. Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’ – starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard – was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard’s gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.
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I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
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My dad likes to recite the story of ‘Pablo the Donkey‘ before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it’s the same; every year, we cringe!
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My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.
661
Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that’s set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God’s gift of the Christ child.
662
We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant ‘big day.’
663
As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn’t sleep at night from anticipation.
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Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.
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The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
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Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.
668
In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick’s grandfather’s house where they were having the big Christmas dinner, and they have this tradition of this thing called oyster stew.
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Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
670
I’m not going to put out a Christmas CD until it’s coming out of me naturally.
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Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
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When I was a kid, I really wanted a metal detector for Christmas, convinced I was going to find buried treasure and could retire at 12. Santa Claus brought me one, but sadly, that treasure was never realized. It’s amazing how many bottle caps you have to dig up. But to be honest, that dream is still alive.
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Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
675
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn’t even have a Christmas tree.
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If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
681
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
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I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn’t do it, I’d feel as though I was missing something.
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I don’t like to see Christmas trees torn down.
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Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
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Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
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I just think Christmas is a time to embrace all the naughty little things.
689
It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It’s also something you never forget once you learn.
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The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
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Music is my thing. It’s my thing; it’s what I love. It’s what I do. It’s football to me; it’s Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.
692
I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn’t hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people.
693
I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said ‘Happy Birthday‘ on it. I didn’t want to waste it so I just wrote ‘Jesus’ on it.
694
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
695
Songs that aren’t even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. ‘Frosty the Snowman,’ ‘Jingle Bells’ and ‘Winter Wonderland’ never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas’ belt of musical dominance.
696
One of the secrets of ‘A Christmas Story’ is that it’s a relatable story. They feel like our family.
697
We always watch ‘The Polar Express.’ I love that movie; that’s a very, very nice Christmas tradition that we have.
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I love the atmosphere at the mall – everything about Christmas. I don’t think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.
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There’s never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it’s about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.
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My most memorable meal was with my parents at Joel Robuchon’s Restaurant Jamin in Paris. It was Christmas 1982, and the flavors – from cauliflower and caviar to crab and tomato – astounded me. It was the first time I remember thinking that I would like to really learn how to cook.
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‘The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
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I love Christmas. Christmas is family time.
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I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children’s favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, ‘How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?’ and, ‘My kids will love this.’
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Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.
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I love the holidays – any holiday – but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens.
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Throughout my teenage years, I read ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.
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Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn’t have been played more correctly.
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What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
718
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
719
Halloween is my favorite holiday. It’s like my Christmas.
720
Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
721
The theme of ‘A Christmas Story’ is that you can count on Christmas – that everybody has a Christmas story. Everybody has that time in the holiday season that they remember.
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I love Christmas. I love the music… I love everything about Christmas. I’m a big fan.
724
I’ve always loved Christmas and that’s not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It’s always a magical time and I’m unashamed in my love for Christmas.
725
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, ’cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you’re always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
726
You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it’s so worth it.
727
My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I’m very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I’d save it for like five months. And then I’d spend it on Christmas presents. I’d save up like eight pounds. It’s nothing, but we did that.
728
Fashion Week is like Christmas.
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Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
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I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called ‘Christmas in Heaven’ about missing someone that you love that’s passed on, and wondering what’s going on up there on Christmas.
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From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.
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I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, ‘Gosh, what should I give her?’. I thought, ‘I’ll make her something.’ Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny‘s recipe of chutney.
735
Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right.
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I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.
737
Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.
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Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.
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I might do ‘X Factor’ next year. It’s looking good that I won’t get the sack at Christmas.
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I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old – basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend‘s house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend’s house. It just struck me as something I really wanted.
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Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us.
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I’ve not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.
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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.
749
I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.
750
One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of ‘Paper,’ gave me ‘Rock Hudson: A Gathering of Friends,’ the master invitation list from Rock Hudson’s memorial service. It’s so great. Everyone’s in it, with personal addresses all bound into a book. Someone else once gave me Ike Turner‘s will. I get great stuff.
751
We play everybody’s Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, ‘I’m not gonna play my own record; I’d be embarrassed.’ But I’m gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!
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My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
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‘White Christmas’ is one of my favorite movies, so I’ve always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.
756
I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
757
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
761
I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.
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I train every day but Christmas. I’m not the guy who gets a contract signed and then trains for a fight. I’m at practice every single day, whether I’ve got a match or not.
769
If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
770
I had a Commodore, and then I remember getting a Nintendo for Christmas and it being a total game-changer. And the hours that I would spend playing the video game and trying to convince my mother that it was improving my hand-eye coordination. It was a worthy use of time. It made my hand-eye coordination better!
771
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there’s the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
772
One of the things that Marjorie has done has given me the joy of family. It’s a joy I never really knew. I spent a long time being lonely and hiding, and now, at Christmas, there’s this huge family. That’s something that’s very new to me. And very special.
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God is in the details.
774
A lot of sequins for New Year’s! Red, green, white – I fail at all of that because I’m always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.
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I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas – from librarians and teachers – and they just fed my imagination.
777
I don’t like most Christmas movies. They’re pretty bad, though they seem to make tons of money anyway. Like this movie ‘Elf,’ I got the script for that, and I turned it down right away. Against my wife’s better judgment.
778
There’s something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.
779
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.
780
Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity.
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I feel like I’ve got a pretty relatively extensive Christmas sweatshirt collection.
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There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
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Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.
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Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
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I was practically raised with Christmas music.
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Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
790
In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
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I think ‘Scrooge’ is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it’s about one man’s transformation. It’s saying that it’s never too late to change, and that’s a good feeling to have at Christmas.
794
I’d been playing Ted in the show for about a year as well as playing in the group in my spare time. Then, at the ‘Scrubs’ Christmas party, I offered to bring along the band to sing a song. The producers thought we were terrible – but perfect for the show.
795
I love this time of year. I’m the world’s biggest Christmas fan!
796
You know what I love the smell of? Christmas trees and pine. I always have a pine candle even if it’s not Christmas.
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You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you’re just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven’t even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
800
I tend to think of Pluto and its moons as presents sitting under a Christmas tree. They’re wrapped, and from Earth all we can do is look at the boxes to see whether they’re light or heavy, to see if something maybe jiggles a bit inside. We’re seeing intriguing things, but we really don’t know what’s in there.
