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Since Chip and I try to go on a date night once a week, we don't feel the need to keep holidays like Valentine's Day all to ourselves. We set the table fancy, we all get dressed up, and we serve a big, beautiful candlelight dinner. It's our kids' favorite, too.
Joanna Gaines /
Valentine
Valentine's Day
Candlelight
Fancy
Date
Chip
Dressed
Holidays
Once A Week
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I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.
Angela Bowie /
Christmas
Easter
Independence
Cyprus
Delighted
England
Heaven
Nine
Rebel
Summer
Switzerland
Holidays
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My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.
Michael Symon / Chef
Family
Thanksgiving
Deserve
Holiday
Restaurants
Staff
Workers
Years
Time Family Money
Family Time Money
Owner
Holidays
Opened
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My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to stay on farms because our children were pretty wild, and it was great going to the beach every day. We used to go to Launceston and Salcombe and all over those two counties.
Mary Berry /
Beach
Cornwall
Devon
Farms
Growing Up
Two
Used
Best Great Always
Pretty
Wild
Counties
Stay
Every Day
Holidays
Over
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As much as I love beach holidays, I do really like to get out and about and explore. It's why I like Los Angeles: because I can easily drive to Malibu or Santa Monica to see what they have to offer. I get itchy feet if I stay still too long in one place when I'm abroad.
Alesha Dixon / Singer
Beach
Feet
Itchy
Los Angeles
Malibu
Monica
Santa
Santa Monica
Abroad
Angeles
Drive
Easily
Explore
Holidays
Los
Offer
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My parents really did believe in the Golden Rule. They really did believe that all people should be treated equally. They had friends of every culture, we celebrated different holidays, but really, secretly behind it, they had no problem telling me who I couldn't marry.
Diane Farr /
Golden
Golden Rule
No Problem
Problem
All People
Behind
Celebrated
Equally
Marry
Holidays
Parents
Rule
Secretly
Telling
The Golden Rule
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The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.
Tamer Hassan /
Selfish
Work Money Me
Afford
Holidays
People Say
Worst Thing
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Though Washington had closed down for the holidays, the next day, December 26, a key message from Hanoi brought Kissinger racing back to his office. It was the signal the White House had anxiously been awaiting; it was also the day of one of the biggest raids by the giant B-52s.
Alistair Horne /
December
Racing
White House
Awaiting
Closed
Giant
Holidays
Signal
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We had this little yard, and during the summer holidays, when my mum and dad were working, I spent hours bowling a golf ball at a stick. Just bowling, bowling, bowling. And I got to where I could hit the stick every time, repeating the same action. That's where the darts came from.
Phil Taylor / Darts Player
Bowling
Darts
Golf Ball
Mum And Dad
Holidays
Repeating
Yard
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My parents instilled a really good work ethic from when I was little - if you want to have money to spend on holidays, you earn it. So I've always been someone who wanted to be able to survive by myself, but I think you have to let down the barriers a little bit - let other people in.
Emilia Fox / Actress
Able
Barriers
Good Work
Let Down
Little Bit
Wanted
Work Ethic
Work Good Money
Bit
Earn
Ethic
Holidays
Spend
Parents
Instilled
Survive
To Survive
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I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.
Sanjeev Bhaskar / Comedian
Jobs
Believe
Expensive
Expensive Clothes
Holiday
Rainy
Rainy Day
Saved
Holidays
Hoping
Suppose
Replace
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I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
Val Mcdermid / Crime Writer
Bible
Second Hand
Taste
Copy
Developed
Discovered
Grandparents
Holidays
Jumble
Libraries
Mysteries
Sales
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I think my mom is the person that holds the family together. For birthdays, for the holidays or whatever, everything has to go through my mom. She's the one reminding us about everything that's going on in the family, she's in touch with everybody while we're on our own doing our things.
Martin Brodeur / Ice Hockey Player
Reminding
Family Mom Together
Holds
Holidays
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I'm very spiritual and I'm Jewish by faith. I'm not a practising Jew, I'm more of a recreational Jew. I celebrate the holidays and I try to inform my kids about their heritage because I think we all at some point have to defend our heritage and if they get picked on I want them to know why.
Peter Segal /
Celebrate
Heritage
Jew
Spiritual
Jewish
Defend
Holidays
Inform
Picked
Practising
Recreational
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My family is certainly very vocal. They're very Italian. A lot of our holidays end with people screaming at each other across the room. And everyone's very opinionated and intelligent. A lot of my aunts and uncles are wildly educated, and their opinions reflect that. We're all very liberal.
Chris Evans / Actor
Family
Uncles
Educated
Intelligent
Italian
Opinionated
Vocal
Very
Lot
Across
Everyone
Aunts
Certainly
Each
Holidays
Liberal
Room
Other
Reflect
Screaming
Wildly
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When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
Gareth Bale / Soccer Player
Close Friends
Football
Holiday
Madrid
Real
Real Madrid
Replica
Shirts
Spain
Time Family Always
Pretend
Dominant Force
Holidays
Family Time Football
Park
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People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you.
Mark Barrowcliffe / Writer
Exotic
Work Car Your
Chose
Forgetting
Holidays
Responsibilities
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For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.
Ivana Trump / Athlete
Home
Cannes
Enjoyed
Film
Grand Prix
Holiday
Pleasure
Summer
Yacht
Collect
Festival
Film Festival
Grand
Holidays
Italy
Monte
Start
There And Then
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Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.
Rachel Nichols / Actress
Thanksgiving
Consumption
Gym
Holiday
January
Night
Return
Holidays
Lets
Specifically
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People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.
Ted Allen / Writer
Dinner
Fancy
Formal
Fussy
Groups
Holiday
Large Groups
Responsibility
Thinking
Good Responsibility People
Cook
Hardly
Holidays
Suddenly
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I used to work at a movie theater and sold hams at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays. I sold a ton of hams, and they offered me a regular job there, which I turned down. I feel like anything you do, just do it 100% because then that work ethic will bleed through when it's time to work on your dreams.
Tika Sumpter / Actress
Ham
Honey
Just Do It
Movie Theater
Work Ethic
Your Dreams
Baked
Bleed
Ethic
Dreams Work Time
Holidays
Offered
Regular
Sold
Ton
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When I sold Weststar Holidays, the idea was to take stock and stop and then decide in life - we were going to travel around the world or whatever we were going to do. After about two weeks my husband said to me, 'Oh for goodness sake Deborah, get yourself a business because this is driving me bonkers.'
Deborah Meaden / Businesswoman
Travel
Goodness
Husband
Sake
Two Weeks
Life Business World
Weeks
Holidays
Sold
Stock
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When the holidays approach and the weather turns cold, you spend your nights watching and rewatching saccharine movies until you fall asleep, hoping for some gleam of happiness or catharsis that never comes, a version of life that looks like a Hallmark movie or where your idealized prince finally shows up.
Ben Domenech / Editor
Approach
Catharsis
Cold
Gleam
Hallmark
Turns
Weather
Asleep
Version
Nights
Finally
Holidays
Hoping
Idealized
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If we want leaders to make good decisions amid huge complexity, and learn how to build great teams, then we should send them to learn from people who've proved they can do it. Instead of long summer holidays, embed aspirant leaders with Larry Page or James Dyson so they can experience successful leadership.
Dominic Cummings /
Experience
Leadership
Complexity
Huge
Larry
Successful
Summer
Good Experience Great
Leadership Good Great
Build
Decisions
Holidays
Instead
James
Learn
Page
Proved
Send
Teams
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I go up to San Francisco on holidays and spend time with my family there, but whenever I go to Japan, I enjoy every moment. I try to go back there every year or so. It's a phenomenal place, and I absolutely love it. It's not my second home; it is my home. Whenever I go back, I feel very connected with Japan.
Ryan Potter /
Connected
Japan
Phenomenal
San Francisco
Love Time Family
Absolutely
Love Family Time
Francisco
Holidays
Spend
San
Second Home
Whenever
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I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.
Vinnie Jones / Actor
Friends
Home
Born
Children
Coming Home
Cork
Dublin
Fantastic
Farms
Fishing
Holiday
Ireland
Remember
Warm
Welcome
Really
Go
Lot
Child
Had
Always
Being
All Day
Coming
Stay
Day
Evenings
Holidays
Outdoors
Trips
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It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu / Film Director
Beach
Enjoyable
Finite
Granted
Life Me Day
Holidays
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I think it is really important to indulge on the holidays, I think that we all deserve that; I think that the more you worry, the more it's a problem. I think everyone's relationship with food is all about giving your body what it wants and what it needs. I think indulging is good and working out, too, for sure!
Martha Hunt /
Deserve
Indulge
Your Body
Holidays
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As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.
Neil Gaiman / Author
Finished
Library
Moved
Summer
Adult
Work Home Walk
Drop
Slowly
Holidays
Local
Several
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Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it.
Rihanna / Recording Artist
Book
Comfortable
Curves
First Time
Holiday
Not Perfect
Perfect
Sexy
Tone
Unhealthy
According
Filming
Holidays
Rock
Realized
Rid
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Give up pride for good during the holidays. This is where I've been especially stubborn. As I walk more and more in this path of Christianity, I see that letting my guard down and admitting that I don't want to be alone is far better than dealing with me, myself and I, who always seem to want to keep up appearances.
Monica Johnson /
Admitting
Christianity
Pride
Appearances
Dealing
Guard
Holidays
Letting
More And More
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I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.
Geoff Dyer / Writer
Essays
Spending Money
Anything Else
Holidays
Life Money Home
More Than Anything
Tendency
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I don't go for holidays or celebrate my success because I know nothing is permanent. I don't let it get to me - like I am India's top director with too many hits. If that happens, I might lose the connect with my audience. The day I go wrong, they will run away from me. I want to be like an assistant director all my life.
Rohit Shetty / Film Director
Celebrate
Permanent
All My Life
Life Success I Am
Assistant
Connect
Hits
Holidays
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Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the holidays to keep the traditions and the culture going, but I truly don't have a great feeling about any particular organized religion, and I don't think it's right to impose one on my kids.
Rhea Perlman / Actress
Buddhist
Catholic
Organized
Organized Religion
Jewish
Episcopalian
Great Feeling
Holidays
Impose
Traditions
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I don't just live in a bubble in Los Angeles. I'm on the road all the time. I say hello to people everywhere. That way, you get to see what despair is around the holidays. People are making terrible choices: Do I have heat in the winter or food on the table? Decisions between filling the gas tank or buying a gift for a kid.
Ralphie May / Comedian
Buying
Choices
Despair
Filling
Gas
Heat
Los Angeles
Terrible
Winter
Everywhere
Decisions
Angeles
Bubble
Holidays
Los
Table
Tank
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I give to panhandlers on occasion, especially around the holidays, but have always been involved with charity, which was an important part of the way I was brought up. My siblings and I knew early on in life that we were incredibly fortunate and have never taken that for granted, so we recognize the importance of giving back.
Donald Trump, Jr. / Businessman
Charity
Fortunate
Giving Back
Granted
Importance
Sibling
Life Always Important
Life Way Important
Holidays
Important Part
Occasion
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I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.
W. Bruce Cameron / Columnist
Appropriate
Celebrate
Dirt
Earth Day
Axis
Creates
Holidays
Jar
Owns
Pair
Shoe
Spin
Store
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Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.
Marlo Thomas / Actress
Christmas
Inspiring
Air
Caught
Different
Different Cultures
Landscape
Nations
Spirit
Twinkling
Year
Collective
Communal
Cultures
Dot
Fill
Help
Holidays
Lights
Makes
Neighbors
Notwithstanding
Planet
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I used to always look forward to my school summer holidays where Saba and I would go and meet bhai. It was exciting spending those two months with him. I always thought he was cool, with his long hair. We would watch him play cricket at his boarding school. He would take us out for dinner with his friends. Exciting times for a kid!
Soha Ali Khan /
Cricket
Long Hair
Boarding
Boarding School
Holidays
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Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.
Simon Hoggart / Journalist
Christmas
Children
Endless
Exotic
Guardian
Holiday
Inspired
Irritation
Lengthy
Notes
Perfect
Rage
Years
Absolute
Accompanied
Original
Full
Talented
Detail
Round
Holidays
Mild
Pets
Readers
Recipients
Revealed
Robin
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I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was bored, and I thought I just wanted to do something to occupy myself instead of asking, 'What can I do, mum? Entertain me.' I started, and it really just took over, and I realised, 'Wow, this is an amazing experience.'
Alexandra Adornetto / Author
Bored
Mum
Realised
Amazing Experience
Entertain
Holidays
Occupy
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I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.
Noemie Lenoir / Model
Campaigns
Changed
Childhood
Complaining
Poor
Saved
Drive
Holidays
Table
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I remember thinking when I was younger - we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I was never going to get further than Spain or France. I really didn't when I was younger. And then I started auditioning for 'Narnia,' and the first thing when I got the part was go straight to New Zealand, halfway around the world.
William Moseley / Actor
France
Halfway
New Zealand
Spain
Younger
Auditioning
Thinking World Remember
First Thing
Further
Holidays
The First Thing
Zealand
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Figure Skating
Florida
Lovely
Skates
Holidays
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I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on top, and it was delicious. I had it most days for lunch, so I thought, 'I'll do that when I get back,' and now it's in my cookbook, an absolute favourite.
Mary Berry /
Cookbook
Delicious
Favourite
Lunch
Mushrooms
Absolute
Canary
Few Things
Holidays
Mainly
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Nobody was like, 'Kimberly, we're going to let you anchor general news or host a show or do any of that.' I at first started out doing legal analysis, but I had to make the case to my bosses... give me a shot, give me a chance, and I was able to do that: say, 'Let me fill in. Let me show you my range. Nothing to lose here - it's the holidays.'
Kimberly Guilfoyle / News Anchor
Legal
Analysis
Give Me
Host
Range
Anchor
Bosses
Fill
Holidays
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My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.
Maeve Binchy / Novelist
Dublin
Fashionable
Loud
Vain
Accountant
Anyway
Doctor
Flung
Marry
Holidays
Hoped
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I'm a true country Southern girl that has always been built around family, cookouts and gatherings and being together on the holidays, singing together and laughing together. So whenever God opened doors for me to be able to travel the world and sing and do all the great things that I've done, I didn't want to lose that part so family first for me.
Fantasia Barrino / Actress
Doors
Great Things
Laughing
Southern
God Family Great
Gatherings
Holidays
Opened
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