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JOSH ALAN FRIEDMAN
Anything goes for Mardi Gras.
PAULA WHITE
I always thought we would have Mardi Gras if we had a city.
ARTHUR HARDY
If no tourists came, we'd still have Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is a state of mind.
ED MUNIZ
So,” I demanded, trying to sound confident, “where can we find this trod to New Orleans?”
JULIE KAGAWA
Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, M...
CHRIS ROSE
We don't care if anybody else comes. We're here for Mardi Gras.
DIANA SANCHEZ
Just wait 'til we get the Mardi Gras music going.
ANNIE LEWIS
Take me to the Mardi Gras.
PAUL SIMON
Most of our holidays we do on the day, but this year [Mardi Gras] is the Tuesday before spring break...
ALEX GRAY
Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go. [On Mardi Gras]
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
You can't spend Mardi Gras in Birmingham.
JUDY JONES
Mardi Gras will tell America that New Orleans is open for business.
BRIAN KERN
Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.
ARTHUR HARDY
We cannot afford not to have Mardi Gras. That message would be -- New Orleans is closed for business...
ARTHUR HARDY
It might seem trivial to be discussing Mardi Gras at this point, but when you consider what Mardi Gr...
BARRY KERN
He loved to go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. He went 11 years in a row.
DOUG MACGREGOR
Normally, Mardi Gras is when we make all our money to pay our taxes and back bills.
EARL BERNHARDT
We are doing everything we can to give a helping hand to the Mardi Gras Indians, including providing...
BILL TAYLOR
To encapsulate the notion of Mardi Gras as nothing more than a big drunk is to take the simple and s...
CHRIS ROSE
Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!
NIKKI SIXX
Please, mister! Please, mister!
MARDI GRAS
That was a prison.
MARDI GRAS
Everything down there is in perfect working order I can assure you of that!
MARDI GRAS
N'Awlinz: Dis, Dat or d'Udda.
MARDI GRAS
[Before he left New Orleans, the 2004 Masters champion landed yet another of those] opportunities .....
MARDI GRAS
It was good because I got some beads,
MARDI GRAS
Every year, Mardi Gras in Pioneer Square has become less and less of an event.
CRAIG MONTGOMERY
We're looking at the game as if it were a chance to go to Mardi Gras.
BOB OAKLAND
Tell him it's his only friend in the whole wide world from Mardi Gras Town, U.S.A.
DAVID ROSEN
It's a great party, and anyone who doesn't enjoy Mardi Gras is not of this world.
FRANKLIN ALVARADO
I am honored to be a part of the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans this year.
BRITNEY SPEARS
The worst is over. The thought of not doing Mardi Gras would be devastating, both financially and ps...
ARTHUR HARDY
This Mardi Gras is about more than greed. It's a shout-out to everybody, and we're coming back stron...
JULIO CESAR
I think they're crazy. There are people that need places to stay and all they're talking about is Ma...
JOHN GROSS
We didn't even think they were going to have Mardi Gras this year, and this is our way of showing su...
ERNIE HARTMAN
The Mardi Gras celebration was absolutely necessary, not only for the economy, but I think it was im...
KRISTEN CATALANOTTO
Just looking at the crowd it's certainly better than we ever dreamed six months ago. Mardi Gras was ...
SANDRA SHILSTONE
For most of them, Christmas is not a good day. For some of them, Christmas is the worst day, because...
GARY JONES
What's a few hours of overtime worth to send the world the message that Mardi Gras is wonderful and ...
ED MUNIZ
It's been six months. That's a long time to be in survival mode. It's nice to have Mardi Gras, to re...
CINDY SALERNO
This is a city that has gone through cataclysm, and its citizens are desperately ready to let off so...
MARY HERCZOG
In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draper...
BRYAN BATT
To see this today has brought a great joy to me. This is more like a family reunion. Mardi Gras is b...
DONALD RHODES
We expect it (increased sales taxes) will continue that way through the year. With Mardi Gras, as we...
JULES GAUDIN
Katrina dealt us a bad hand. But to say you're going to cut Mardi Gras is the wrong approach. That w...
ED MUNIZ
There's always going to be a Mardi Gras -- at least, a lot of Americans hope there will always be, ....
JOEL KOTKIN
There's always going to be a Mardi Gras - at least, a lot of Americans hope there will always be, .....
JOEL KOTKIN
I think people are ready to forget about this storm and to move forward in their lives. And I think ...
DUNCAN MCKENZIE
I've heard some people say we can't do it. But it's a very significant anniversary and I can't imagi...
ARTHUR HARDY
I think we chose the Mardi Gras Masquerade theme as a result of the influence of Hurricane Katrina e...
JEANNINE LIPEZ
But it turned out to work with various themes, such as Mardi Gras and the '50s, and now the tropics ...
JEAN MCMATH
I started making calls a week after Katrina. The captains all said the same thing: you can take away...
ARTHUR HARDY
The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool tabl...
ADAM RICHMAN
On Christmas Eve, we had 22 funerals. On Christmas Day, there were 19. Everybody I know took down th...
JACK MCREYNOLDS
But he proved them wrong. He woke up around Christmas, and that gave us the Christmas miracle we had...
AMY STOCKTON
Before the hurricane, it would have been one big Mardi Gras-type party this weekend. But it wasn't a...
HERB VINCENT
When you get downtown, it's almost like Katrina didn't touch it. There's still a lot of misunderstan...
MARK SANDERS
It gave us something to be happy about, just happy.
BARRY STATIA
Stockton Yacht Club, for us, will always be just a smile away.
BARRY STATIA
Barry has produced albums by some major Christian music artists like Rebecca St. James, Slingshot 57...
BRAD CLARK
I'm thrilled for our captain. We don't really count on him to score but this time he had his hands i...
JEFF ZOWNIR
I think it has an attraction: the Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street, the fun area, it's warmer than Madison...
CHRIS KONIECZKA
Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if t...
ELLEN DEGENERES
I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you...
ADRIANA LIMA
I just hope that our beloved city will come alive again, which I know it will, because I've never mi...
ALLEN MILLER
Mobile’s reputation as the birthplace of Mardi Gras in North America does not rest solely on the f...
GARY BRIDGMAN
We had to hustle to get Santa's castle out of there. We did it the day after Christmas.
LINDA MCINTOSH
Mardi Gras is a very good time for the city to invite visitors to come and see that New Orleans is o...
ANTHONY SANFILIPPO
Like Mardi Gras and Halloween rolled into a public party at the Playboy mansion, Rio during Carnaval...
JAMES SCHANNEP
We talked the other day that the U.S. had everything to lose. And we had everything to win.
JOA ELFSBERG
This was a big win outside St. Croix. We had to throw the kitchen sink at them.
DONALD BOUGH
We just looked like a tired basketball team. We haven't had a day off since the day after Christmas,...
BOB THOMASON
Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We s...
SAMANTHA ISLER
I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is l...
AUGUSTA E. RUNDEL
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Chr...
JOAN WINMILL BROWN
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home
EDWARD ROWLAND SILL
Now we get people from New York City, California, Colorado. It's a fun party. In the past, some peop...
MACK BRADLEY
We've had them up since the second week of January and now they're going. Next to Christmas, this an...
DAN POTTS
Both Kendall and St. Jacques were playing well. That's the reason we were alternating between them. ...
JASON LESTEBERG
Everything was a prayer to St. Francis, his whole life was a prayer. This is what we strive for, too...
COSETTE SCHAAF
We ask on this Christmas Day for freedom for our political prisoners and for the Cuban people to hav...
LAURA POLLAN
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of k...
DAVID GRAYSON
One day we had everything, then all of a sudden we don't have anything.
DONALD RHODES
We tend to think of St. Patrick's Day as one big Irish party. However, St. Patrick's Day means somet...
DR. SAM SPERON
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
PETER AGRE
They had a guy by the name of Barry Larkin ,
TREVOR HOFFMAN
We didn't really have a great week of practice, we've had a lot of stuff on the road and there was a...
BRIAN GOORJIAN
We might not need Barry.
FELIPE ALOU
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all abou...
MONICA SELES
Shamrocks
And roses
In an ever green flock
Now Up to your noses
Turning into...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll a...
BOBBY HATFIELD
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arri...
ANN VOSKAMP
Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your minds on Christmas day, and here...
LINUS TORVALDS
I have a wrapping fetish, and so I always come out the day after Christmas so I can stock up for nex...
ELIZABETH JONES
We swam seven miles a day over the Christmas break. That's the way we tallied it.
DAN LEWAN
For four of our six decades, we've played Christmas Day. I remember as a kid going to Madison Square...
GREGG WINIK
It was the day after Christmas. We came down to the studio, and Bob March saw me in the suit and bro...
FORREST PATTEN
We worked hard over the break, practicing every day including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, on co...
JOSH MILLS

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It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the r...
BARRY SANDERS
I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I...
BARRY SANDERS
Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 seas...
BARRY SANDERS
I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate t...
BARRY SANDERS
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her co...
BARRY SANDERS
I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so w...
BARRY SANDERS
Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most im...
BARRY SANDERS
The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has le...
BARRY SANDERS
I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, y...
BARRY SANDERS
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
BARRY SANDERS
I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always staye...
BARRY SANDERS
Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
BARRY SANDERS
Life doesn't stop with football.
BARRY SANDERS
I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoy...
BARRY SANDERS
Let's just win it and go home.
BARRY SANDERS
My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart throu...
BARRY SANDERS
I really love peace and quiet.
BARRY SANDERS
You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
BARRY SANDERS
It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing f...
BARRY SANDERS
Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
BARRY SANDERS
Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smar...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevit...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technolog...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
BARRY RITHOLTZ
Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable futur...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, b...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
BARRY RITHOLTZ
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
BARRY RITHOLTZ
When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
BARRY RITHOLTZ
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a short...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good ye...
BARRY RITHOLTZ
When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
BARRY RITHOLTZ
Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the...
BARRY RITHOLTZ