Quotes About Celebration

I grew up in New York City, and I've got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks.

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.

I jumped into my parents loft where I was actually able to go through all my cards, all the newspaper cuttings that my family collected, and it made me realise just how big London 2012 was - it was huge! That was a Games that I will never, ever forget and it was definitely my highlight.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

Don't forget to celebrate. When I was first coming up, everything was so serious - we were always rushing to get to the next thing - that we didn't take the time to say, 'Man, look what we did just now.'

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

It's nice to play in America.

I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

It's one thing to work, but it's another thing to work on a show where people stop you all the time to say nice things.

I take my role of being an aunt seriously and have attended every important event/milestone in all my nieces' and nephews' lives.

We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down.

I come from a performing family. My parents are Nigerian, and their parents and their parents - and it's all about performance in their culture, you know. The music. The dancing... you're told to stand out at family gatherings and perform in some sort of way. You're just kind of born into it.

When I go out, I'm not going out to find a man; I'm going out to dance the night away with my best friends.

The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.

Songs with simple lyrics really take off in Irish nightclubs.

I can only imagine there still have to be nightclubs where 21-year-olds go.

Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.

I had one of the best nights of my life at Mardi Gras.

I'm going to have some fabulous nights out with champagne.

I have had my fair share of nights out.

Awards nights are a part of our modern culture; they're part of what we do.

I remember playing six nights at Wembley in the 80s. I partied for three of those straight, with our friends Duran Duran. Back then, the fun was about the after-show - who was coming to the party and whether they had a guest list pass.

April 25th is DNA Day. I know, you probably had no idea.