Master Ceremony Quotes

• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

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  Ice T

  Party   Rap   Rocks  

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• The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.

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  John Hench

  Thinking   Magic Kingdom   Bird  

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• Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

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  Nicholson Baker

  Friends   Real   Taken  

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.64, Vintage

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• For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

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  George Orwell

  Lying   Home   Fate  

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness   Powerful   Men  

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can stand on stage and perform a record, you should be able to stand on stage and captivate the audience without the rhyme. You should be a master of ceremonies.

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  Torae

  Records   Able   Should  

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

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  Jelly Roll Morton

  Witty   Directors   Firsts  

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• Life and love go on, let the music play.

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  Johnny Cash

  Life And Love   Play   Old Wounds  

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• One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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  D. H. Lawrence

  Book   Reading   Emotion  

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically.

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  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs   Wall   Blow  

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the-ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN.

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  Terry Pratchett

  Ocean   Eye   Reality  

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.312, Random House

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• Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

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  Rita Rudner

  Funny   Marriage   Pain  

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.86, Crown Archetype

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• Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

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  James A. Garfield

  Country   Money   Democracy  

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• A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

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  Robert Orben

  Funny   Graduation   Senior  

  "A Few Tips for the Graduates". The Topeka Capital-Journal, abcnews.go.com. May 20, 2007.

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• The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.

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  Johnny Cash

  Life And Love   Past   Play  

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• I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

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  Shelley Berman

  Teaching   Writing   Dramatic  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming.

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  Styles P

  Mean   Appreciate   Emcee  

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

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  F. Huegel

  Self   Temptation   Lines  

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