Ceremony Quotes
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The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.
George C. Scott
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Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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I found it absolutely incredible that Mr. Duceppe called for a boycott of the installation as governor-general of an eminent Canadian of Haitian origin from the Quebec society, ... I was shocked to see Gilles Duceppe call for a boycott of that ceremony. ... They are Quebecers, they should be proud to see a Quebecer accede to that very important position.
Pierre Pettigrew
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At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.
Walter Inglis Anderson
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How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
William Butler Yeats
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.
Kiefer Sutherland
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When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.
Apolo Ohno
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The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.
William Robertson Smith
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A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.
William Shakespeare
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For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.
Ingrid Michaelson
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
William Cowper
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President Obama held a ceremony at the White House to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. In response, Republicans said, 'It's even worse than we thought. He's a Jewish Muslim.'
Conan O'Brien
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It makes a statement we're serious about becoming a player on the national level. I would have liked it to have been done two years ago, but that's OK. We can finally say we're going to have a groundbreaking ceremony. I'm so excited.
Brad Soderberg
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
Alistair Cooke
