#celebration

But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration. ↗

— Julius Erving

#celebration #downs #family #great #had

There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#being #bottom #celebration #i #i think

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american writer #asked #celebration #died #emerson

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of. ↗

— Neil Young

#bit #celebration #guilty #i #i think

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#boxing #celebration #lost #masculinity #more

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#awful #celebration #choose #could #desperate

All those adorable towheaded kids in the promotional film are going to turn thirteen. Once a family member hits puberty, odds are that everybody is not going to have the same ideals. Unless everybody gets together and agrees that the new ideals involve turning the front yard into a skate ramp and officially changing Dad's name to Fuckhead. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#florida #humor #parenting #change

The Chinese used gunpowder to make fireworks for celebrations, and the white man came along and said, Holy shit, we can use this to kill people. What better way to celebrate than that?
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— Jarod Kintz

#celebration #chaos #chinese #death #destroy

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#dance #football #men

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#actual #art #between #celebration #death