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• You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

  Eddie Campbell

  Crazy, Past, People

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• For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

  Michael Kors

  Luxury, Caviar, Schedules

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

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• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  Edie Falco

  Running, Parenting, Phones

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• Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill a cavity but they're good for your soul. Your teeth rot, but apparently your spirit prospers."

  Ken Wilber

  Writing, Soul, Teeth

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• If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".

  Andre Maurois

  New York, Taxi, Late

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• Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.

  Robert Breault

  Destiny, Effort, Sometimes

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• I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

  Dave Barry

  Phones, Medicine, Doctors

  Dave Barry (2010). “I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood”, p.96, Penguin

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• The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

  Robert Pozen

  Night, Phones, Two

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• The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer, son of the morning. Haughty, ambitious, and covetous of power and glory, this spirit-brother of Jesus desperately tried to become the Savior of mankind

  Milton R. Hunter

  Jesus, Morning, Brother

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• Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

  Richard V. Allen

  Powerful, Party, President

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• I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

  John Jay Hooker

  Mistake, Believe, Agreement

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• The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Innovation, Prepared

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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• The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

  Spencer Bachus

  Iraq, Three, Movement

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• Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Past, Journey, Space

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• We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Preparation, Veils

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• We've also had comments in relation to Donald Trump's comments in respect of investment in Scotland- the UK government has never given Mr Trump awards or appointments.

  James Brokenshire

  Awards, Government, Scotland

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I worry about the lack of experience that Rex Tillerson has had on the diplomatic front and, frankly, I think that's true for many of the appointments to [Donald] Trump's cabinet.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Worry, Cabinets

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It wasn't exactly a cattle call. I had an agent, and they were seeing people for the parts, so my agent said, "Here's the script, see if there's anything that speaks to you." And I did, and I called my agent and said, "I think this character Data is kind of interesting," and she said, "Well, okay, I'll get you the appointment with Junie Lowry." I had to read with the casting agent first, 'cause nobody really knew me then. Then after that, I had, I think, six different auditions for the role. And finally it was me [on Star Trek].

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.

  David Brainerd

  Voice, Silence, Spirit

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• When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

  Ruth Simmons

  Latin, Winning, Men

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I had an agent. When [Edward] Steichen was doing "The Family of Man", I went up to the office one day. I think Wayne Miller, who assisted Steichen with "The Family of Man," was up there and pulled out a bunch of pictures. So I got a message: "Take these pictures, call Steichen, make an appointment and take these pictures up there." And that's how I met him.

  Garry Winogrand

  Thinking, Men, Office

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• I call upon Donald Trump to rescind the appointment that he made of Stephen Bannon. A president of the United States should not have a racist at his side, unacceptable.

  Bernie Sanders

  President, United States, Racist

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• President [Barack] Obama, it took him a number of days to do [appointments to Administration] and it took former President Bill Clinton even longer.

  Kristen Welker

  Numbers, President, Bills

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.

  Henry Howarth Bashford

  Physicians, Spite, Servant

  The Corner of Harley Street Ch. 8

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• Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to ascribe what we meet with either to good or ill luck and fortune. There are many events in the world which men look upon as mere accidents, yet all these come by the counsel and appointment of Heaven.

  Thomas Boston

  Fall, Men, Heaven

  Thomas Boston (1812). “An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion, with Respect to Faith and Practice, Upon the Plan of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, Comprehending a Complete Body of Divinity”, p.179

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