Neal A. Maxwell: We should certainly count our blessings, but we...

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Quote: Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so much about the vegetables, but it's very unique to the season.
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Daniel Humm
Category:
Thanksgiving

Even if you are...

Quote: Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'
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Jeff Ament
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Thanksgiving

Where I grew up,...

Quote: Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.
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Marcus Samuelsson
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Thanksgiving

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised...

Quote: I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.
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Marc Forgione
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Thanksgiving

I have nothing against...

Quote: I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.
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Author:
Amy Sedaris
Category:
Thanksgiving

I like to decide...

Quote: It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.
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Robbie Robertson
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Thanksgiving

It's a bit of...

Quote: I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other dishes that get put on a table or a counter or that stay warming on the stove that I'd rather eat than turkey.
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Author:
Wesley Morris
Category:
Thanksgiving

I don't like turkey....

Quote: It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.
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Author:
John Hughes
Category:
Thanksgiving

It's like being at...

Quote: Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.
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Author:
Rosecrans Baldwin
Category:
Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral...

Quote: I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.
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Brie Larson
Category:
Thanksgiving

I started acting in...

Quote: On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
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Author:
Bobby Jindal
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Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving I will...

Quote: Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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William Arthur Ward
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Thanksgiving

Feeling gratitude and not...

Quote: My interactions with my family members are all one-to-one. We don't all get together for Thanksgiving dinner. But I can sit and tell any one of them about a conversation that I just had with the other one, and they're all curious and interested and respectful.
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Sean Astin
Category:
Thanksgiving

My interactions with my...

Quote: One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend's place with 'Grand Theft Auto.'
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Paul Dini
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Thanksgiving

One Thanksgiving weekend, I...

Quote: I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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Gavin Newsom
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Thanksgiving

I think Thanksgiving is...

Quote: Thanksgiving Day, we do a huge lunch. Big family, like, 60 people, we get together. Everybody brings a covered dish, everybody brings a dessert, and we go all out.
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Author:
Chris Lane
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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day, we do...

Quote: That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
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Michael Strahan
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Thanksgiving

That's one of the...

Quote: It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
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David Steindl-Rast
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Thanksgiving

It is not joy...

Quote: In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.
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Jennifer Lee
Category:
Thanksgiving

In deference to American...

Quote: I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
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Author:
Jon Stewart
Category:
Thanksgiving

I celebrated Thanksgiving in...

Quote: I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category:
Thanksgiving

I awoke this morning...

Quote: One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.
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Author:
Marlo Thomas
Category:
Thanksgiving

One of the best...

Quote: Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
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Joseph Auslander
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Thanksgiving

Dear Lord; we beg...

Quote: It wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges.
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Author:
Wylie Dufresne
Category:
Thanksgiving

It wasn't the traditional...

Quote: It's part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives.
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Monica Hesse
Category:
Thanksgiving

It's part of the...

Quote: Once, at Thanksgiving, a neighbor wandered in while my cousin Lisa worked on a turkey, shearing meat off its frame and sliding the steaming slices onto a big flowered plate. 'Hey, that's the man's job,' she yelped, in between slurps of her Big Gulp. No one even paused to acknowledge the comment; everyone just laughed and laughed.
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Author:
Jenna Wortham
Category:
Thanksgiving

Once, at Thanksgiving, a...

Quote: Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Author:
Erma Bombeck
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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen...

Quote: I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.
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Author:
Mark Shriver
Category:
Thanksgiving

I miss both of...

Quote: When we are filming, it often feels like we're flying blind. As an actor, you have no idea if your choices are right or if they work. Some scenes feel like a complete Hail Mary. Imagine you're blindfolded and cook a massive Thanksgiving feast with only new recipes - without getting to taste any of them along the way.
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Lela Loren
Category:
Thanksgiving

When we are filming,...

Quote: When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.
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Author:
Amy Robach
Category:
Thanksgiving

When I first sat...

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