Quotes About Celebration

Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

'Power breaking,' also called Hanmadang - which means something like celebration or festival in Korean - involves breaking large amounts of wood, concrete, granite, and the like with specific hand and foot techniques. Practitioners rely on repeated resistance training and the idea that, over time, the body can adapt to stress.

Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'

Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.

Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives.

If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.

I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

My favorite thing is when we lift a trophy. Afterward, we can have a picture of us lifting a trophy. And that picture shows a lot of work, a lot of difficulty and a lot of sacrifice together.

We're human. Enjoy yourself. You work hard every day; you deserve to turn up on the weekends with your friends.

I wanted to go where the people work hard, throw down, and really needed the party... Saginaw is all that and then some. I looked in those faces - and I knew, these people mean business.

I'm an early riser. I work out really hard. I push myself; I get my job done, and at the end of the day, there's a Guinness waiting for me.

Part of the reason everyone is freaking out over 'Black Panther' is because we've never seen it. We have two thousand years of stories, and we've never seen it.

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

You can only absorb when you look back at photos: like when we played Coachella, and there are thousands of people in the audience, and you just walk on stage.

A Grateful Dead concert is much more than the music: it's an experience, almost like being in a family of thousands of people.

Who would imagine, at Coachella, thousands of people singing in Korean?

I'd won three cups with Lazio - then, against the odds, we won Serie A, the Italian equivalent of the Premier League. Rome went wild. Thousands of people filled the streets, and fans even jumped on my car. I became known as Il Mitico - 'the legend.'

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.