People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.
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Related I'll tell you that when an innocent person is killed, we never go about asking or inquiring whet... HASSAN ROUHANI It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what ... ROWAN WILLIAMS Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's ... VINCE VAUGHN Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day! JAY LENO I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valenti... GABRIELLA WILDE It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the l... JEFFREY BERNARD So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying i... ELLEN DEGENERES I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Va... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to t... ABHIJIT NASKAR I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denominat... RAY CHARLES Valentine's Day is definitely one of those days where it's either awesome or it's a down... JUDAH FRIEDLANDER I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your f... CAMILA ALVES It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that the... ZELJKO IVANEK I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment. LARISA OLEYNIK Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to... AYELET WALDMAN I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most peopl... REEVA STEENKAMP Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books ... BILL BURR I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch... DANIEL EVERETT I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... DYLAN MORAN With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than t... BOB NEWHART I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because... A. R. RAHMAN A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a... MARJANE SATRAPI It's so important for girls to respect themselves and not put themselves down and say, 'Oh, ... DAVID ARCHULETA Because of social media, a lot of people think they can be, like, a rapper or a singer or a musician... SKY FERREIRA Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the... MIKE MCCUE Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having... ALEX KAPRANOS I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmi... IGGY AZALEA I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren... STEVEN YEUN There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivabl... GEOFF DYER If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day... CESAR ROMERO So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the m... GAYLE KING Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you somethi... TRACY CHAPMAN The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the count... DAN BARTLETT I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marma... GARY VAYNERCHUK I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think i... PRINCE ROYCE Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. LINDSAY ELLINGSON They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women c... JULIA ROBERTS You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to l... B.O.B I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' bec... DAVID BAILEY When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interestin... DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE I'm not a real Halloween kind of guy, because Halloween is every day. AL JOURGENSEN If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', wh... JOAQUIN PHOENIX Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell... BRYSON TILLER Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A... RICHARD MASUR People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way -... AMARTYA SEN Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are c... MALALA YOUSAFZAI To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not n... CAMPBELL BROWN That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just ano... JAWED KARIM To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fai... BILL HASLAM I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or blac... RUTINA WESLEY There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, ... LOUIS C. K. I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't... MISSY ELLIOTT Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match bec... SIMON SINEK Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of so... RANDEEP HOODA Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's no... NICK VUJICIC Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a profes... SAFRA A. CATZ Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am... FRED DURST There's an assumption that my audience is all these bearded twats from Dalston. But actually, qu... STEWART LEE Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day. GWEN STEFANI As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the... SYLVESTER MCCOY New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day ... SAM YAGAN If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.'... JOAN COLLINS Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. I... P. J. O'ROURKE It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it... NICK FLYNN It's not like you can say, 'This is the right side and this is the wrong side,' because ... DOVE CAMERON Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. Peopl... VICTOR LAVALLE It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can ... CAROLINE DHAVERNAS Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one... LA'PORSHA RENAE If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actuall... DIPLO There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I... HALIMA ADEN Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy ... STEVEN SEAGAL You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it... CHARLES OLSON I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it;... B. F. SKINNER I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are iron... DAN SAVAGE I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic... BILL LASWELL When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel... AMY SEDARIS Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I ... ZOE SALDANA I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I ... SALLY PHILLIPS When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can... HELEN FISHER For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which do... DAN CHAON I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy,... GIOVANNI RIBISI I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because i... KAZUO ISHIGURO It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actu... MICHAEL LEUNIG I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's ... A.J. STYLES I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That'... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of empe... PAULA COLE I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error... MAHATMA GANDHI People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the prese... COLIN QUINN In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're ... KREAYSHAWN Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for ... KRISTEN STEWART I'm actually a big fan of Kathy Griffin because I think she's really funny. I think she'... CHELSEA HANDLER We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, whi... JIMMY CARTER I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact tha... ALAN GREENSPAN I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preac... MOJO NIXON Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla... BILL EVANS We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many pe... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I... TIM TEBOW When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good... GABRIELLA WILDE
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