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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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Author:Diane Kruger

“What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.”

“You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.”

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Author:Padma Lakshmi

“Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.”

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Book:Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale

Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale

“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.”

“I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.”

Giving Important Helping Simple Streets Youth Giving Up Christmas Seats Bus Toys Pregnant Turkeys Giving Back Old Lady

Author:Queen Latifah

“At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.”

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Author:Nicholas Lea

“Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.”

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Author:Sandra Lee

“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.”

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Author:Ivan Lendl

“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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Author:Annie Lennox

“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.”

“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.”

Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.”

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Author:Robert Staughton Lynd

“For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.”

Guy Albums Christmas

Author:Barry Manilow

“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”

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Author:George C. Marshall

“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.”

“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.”

“Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!”

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Book:Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley

Source: Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley

“I told her that there was something about Christmas carols that always brought tears to my eyes. I added that I also cry at weddings. To me weddings are very solemn occasions. I should have cried at a couple of my own.”

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Author:Ethel Merman

“My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.”

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Author:Mario Batali

“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.”

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Book:The Night Before Christmas: (A Visit from St. Nicholas).

Source: The Night Before Christmas: (A Visit from St. Nicholas).

“T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”

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Author:Clement Clarke Moore

“I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.”

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Author:Jose Mourinho

“I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!”

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Author:Joe Nichols

“It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.”

Actors Wonderful Christmas Auditions

Author:Bill Nighy

“Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.”

Should Cutting Taxes Christmas Tax Cuts

Author:George Osborne

“When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“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.”

Song Albums Christmas Versions Episodes Considering Offensive

Author:Trey Parker

“We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.”

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Author:Pope Paul VI

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.”

“It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.”

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Book:I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California

Source: I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California

“Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”

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Author:Richard Roeper

“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.”

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Author:Dan Savage

“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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Author:Bob Schieffer

“He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.”

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Author:Kyra Sedgwick

“That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.”

“I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.”

Cities Christmas Civil War Christmas Gift Savannah Savanna

Book:Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

“My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.”

Years Stills Parent Treats Christmas Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds

Author:Mike Shinoda

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”

“It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'”

Knows Kids Dad Degrees My Dad Snow Christmas Backyards

Author:Tori Spelling

“The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.”

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Author:Rick Springfield

“Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas.”

Christmas Online

Author:Lewis Black

“Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.”

Source: the zodiac arch

“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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Book:The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined

Source: The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined

“I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.”

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Author:Alison Sweeney

“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”

“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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