Ceremony Quotes
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Funerals are all abstract ceremony.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best ...
William Butler Yeats
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity
William Butler Yeats
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(Of attending the Academy Awards Ceremony) "Like going to Liberace`s house on acid."
Tim Roth
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I didn`t show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.
John Ford
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The first Oscarcast, I was definitely functioning in a surreal mode. It was like I was watching myself watch the ceremony. Yet I had a good time. Hey, wearing a beautiful dress and being surrounded by beautiful people is not a terrible way to spend an eve...
Emily Watson
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[In reference to the Oscar Family Album Tribute sequence at The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998) (TV) and speaking live on British television following the Oscar ceremony in 1998] I was sat up there with the likes of Claire Trevor and Luise Rainer. It me...
Michael Caine
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I could never really see the point of being high-profile when I loathed it so much. Every now and then, you can go to something like an Oscars ceremony, but nobody is holding a gun to your head. The rules were the same 40 years ago as they are now. You ca...
Julie Christie
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Sammy [Sammy Davis Jr.] was really good friends with Peter Brown. Peter got married to a French girl, Yvette. He had this little ceremony in this church in Beverly Hills. Sammy . . . and Dean Martin were there. Dean Martin fell sound asleep just before Pe...
William Smith
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[at the Coolidge Award ceremony in 2006 for Meryl Streep] I was redundant! Meryl Streep doesn`t need a director. She`s kind to them; she`s really nice. She`ll compliment you, and say, "That was good - what you did." I was so happy the next day to get on t...
Robert Altman
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[On the Academy Awards circa 1978] I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don`t think they know what they`re doing. When you see who wins those things -- or who doesn`t win them -- you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.
Woody Allen
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Just after we shot Secret Ceremony (1968), lesbianism came in ... I`m no damned good as a lesbian.
Robert Mitchum
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About the 2004 Olympics opening ceremony: "I am incredibly honoured to have been asked to write a song and sing it at the Olympics. The song is written from the point of view of the ocean that surrounds all the land and watches over the humans to see how ...
Bjork Guomundsdottir
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[After accepting the Best Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954) at the 27th Academy Awards ceremony] "I can`t remember what I was going to say for the life of me. I don`t think ever in my life that so many people were so directly responsible for my bei...
Marlon Brando
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You know the ceremony is going to happen, and in certain ways it doesn`t change. But then you combine that with this question: How is the host country going to try to take you into extended disbelief?
Atonye Nyingifa
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You just invite people over for a surprise birthday party, but really it`s a surprise wedding. The bride comes in, everyone yells `surprise,` but she`s in a wedding dress. Then somebody in the crowd that nobody`s noticed comes up and starts to do the cere...
Scott Shaw
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You can see the excitement on all of the athletes` faces. After years of training and competing, their moment is finally here and we are looking forward to watching Danielle Goyette lead Canada`s athletes into the Opening Ceremony.
Barbara Marino
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Yes, I did get such an offer. As soon as an opportunity arises for the Prime Minister - he is a very busy man - the [baptism] ceremony will take place.
Andriy Shevchenko
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Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjo...
Tom Jones
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When the run is over, there will be a closing ceremony and the runners will return to the many distant lands from which they came.
Dennis Banks
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This is the fourth Blue Star Banner ceremony that we have all participated in here in Pawling, and basically before, we have not had the soldiers with us, except in a few rare cases. It is very gratifying to see you here this evening, and to be able to th...
Dave Kelly
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
John Cheever
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The decision will be made after Friday`s medal ceremony or later about the 1,500.
Claudia Pechstein
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The ceremony was one of the largest events in the town`s history,
Scott Marshall
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The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
Suzanne Fields
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No major decision is expected soon. The tough bargaining is likely to last until mid-December -- Berlusconi hopes for a signing ceremony in Rome by mid next year.
Andy Warren
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Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when ...
Allen Settle
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It`s a sad day for American when a small group of very determined activists are dominating the awards ceremony.
Armando Villareal
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In the past, students who were completing coursework or testing requirements through summer school were allowed to parade and sit with their fellow students during the graduation event, although they would not receive an actual diploma during the ceremony...
Susan Hale
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