Ceremony Quotes
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When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.
Galarrwuy Yunupingu
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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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I like to cook for my friends. It is an act of love because in cooking you can create so many plates and recipes, if you know how to - otherwise you make a mess - but I like it because it's like a ceremony. You cook for your friends and after, you drink wine and play cards.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
Jonathan Swift
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
William Wycherley
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Harold, according to some historians, crowned himself with his own hand, without any religious ceremony; and renewing in his heart the ancient spirit of his ancestors, he conceived a hatred for Christianity.
Augustin Thierry
