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" Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left. "
John Waters
Days
Christmas
Only
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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. "
Johnny Mathis
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" I love all the gift guides that the magazines put out, whether it's 'InStyle' doing Mother's Day gifts or color guides, or the 'O' magazine Christmas guide. "
Dylan Lauren
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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. "
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Christmas
Weekend
" To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears. "
Rory MacLean
Me
Dress
Christmas
" 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. "
Frederica Mathewes-Green
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Fun
" I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside. "
Tommy Hilfiger
Time
Rest
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" I love making savory stratas for Christmas morning. I get excited about it. It's a polenta strata with homemade bread, with a billion eggs and Parmesan cheese. I'll drizzle truffle oil over the whole thing, which will just destroy people. It's amazing. "
Grace Potter
Morning
Love
Bread
" Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity. "
Tariq Ramadan
Christmas
Space
Trees
" At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life. "
John Vane
Passion
Me
Life
" As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. "
Clement Clarke Moore
Hurricane
Fly
Up
" Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time. "
John Waters
Shy
Quiet
Good
" 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? "
Sayed Kashua
Good
Children
Red
" Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I've worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well. "
Brian F. O'Byrne
Work
Home
New York
" I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything. "
Billy Graham
Looking
People
Children
" To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. "
E. B. White
Every
Christmas
Difficult
" I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back. "
David Hasselhoff
People
Me
Respect
" The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school. "
Alice Cooper
Morning
End
School
" 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. "
Tim Burton
Saying
You
Know
" It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself. "
Julie Burchill
Much
True
Christmas
" The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth. "
David Ogden Stiers
Energy
Truth
Simple
" I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce. "
Mallory Jansen
Tree
Also
Real
" You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas. "
Elliott Abrams
You
Christmas
Celebrate
" Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package. "
Jon Katz
Gift
Furniture
See
" The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time. "
Lake Bell
Like
Time
Gifts
" I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas. "
Frank Butler
Little
Behind
Christmas
" I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time. "
Jeremy Corbyn
Beach
Joy
Pride
" I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater. "
Lana Parrilla
White
Christmas
Loved
" Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. "
Ralph W. Sockman
Religion
Youth
Science
" If I'm getting on an airplane or anywhere, really, I have a lunch box and stuff. It's a running joke with my friends and family - everyone gives me lunch boxes for Christmas. "
Nikki Reed
Friends And Family
Family
Airplane