It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

D'Angelo

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

Alan King

I think that Life Ball is great because we're celebrating life and also raising awareness. That's all we need to keep doing.

Alaska

When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no room in our household for negativity. She taught us to embrace each other, and this was empowering for us. She also taught us the value of celebrating our differences.

Alek Wek

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

Alex Grey

'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.

Amanda Seales

There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

Anand Giridharadas

'Livin' the Life' is about celebrating life and spreading love and kindness around the world.

Ananya Birla

Music means life and love in its purest form. It's about capturing your emotions and celebrating everything about life.

Ananya Birla

I don't understand why even fans get angry for a player celebrating.

Andre Schurrle

When I take my free-kicks, I think in Portuguese, and at most, I'll do the celebrating in my native tongue.

Andrea Pirlo

Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without watching a regular season game. Some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show.

Andrew Shaffer

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

Andy Dunn

Award ceremonies are strange because you're sitting next to someone you've never met; you're celebrating with a total stranger.

Aneurin Barnard

I just remember celebrating my 18th birthday at home, so that was a big party.

Angelique Kerber

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Anna Deavere Smith

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Anne Lamott

I've been celebrating the Day of the Dead since I was 6 years old because my grandfather passed away back then. The Day of the Dead was just a wonderful and joyful celebration where I can be with him and connect with him again.

Anthony Gonzalez

I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.

Antonya Nelson

So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different.

Ava Max