Occasions Quotes - Page 16

• We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

  Evan Davis

  Light, Track, Lasts

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• I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incredible. She's always got a song for the right occasion. Many people call in, maybe their spirit it a little down, and she lifts them up. She is really somebody special. She's a lifeline to a lot of people.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Song, Years, People

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• I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

  Anthony Anderson

  Comedian, Actors, Happens

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

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• Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

  Julian Baggini

  Broken, Needs, Might

  "Never saying never to torture" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Agency, Trying, Different

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• On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Relationship, Media, Together

  "Declaration of Gennifer G. Flowers". www.washingtonpost.com. March 13, 1998.

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• Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

  Jon Ronson

  Childhood, Bipolar, Sometimes

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• Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Religious, People, Generosity

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• You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Alive, Pants, Circumstances

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• Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

  Stanley Crouch

  Jobs, People, Violence

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• I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

  Jim Dale

  Writing, Kids, Phones

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

  William Devane

  Writing, People, Stories

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• I've been homeless on a few occasions.

  Jay Electronica

  Homeless

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• Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Play, Space

  Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.132, Taylor & Francis

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• Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and John were permitted to see Him in His glory. For that brief while they had no need of faith. The vision vanished, and the memory of it did not prevent them from all forsaking Him when He was arrested, or Peter from denying that he had ever known Him.

  W. H. Auden

  Memories, Believe, Men

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• If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.

  Immanuel Kant

  Character, Science, Men

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• The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Thinking, Cameras

  "Off the Shelf: Elliott Erwitt’s New York" by Rollo Romig, www.newyorker.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are quite possible methodologically but one must be alert to the possible occasion for confusion. (...) Seen as an organism, man cannot be anything else but a complex of things, of its, and the processes that ultimately comprise an organism are it-processes.

  R. D. Laing

  Reality, Men, Confusion

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• Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

  Van Morrison

  Politics, Persuasion, Halfway

  Song: Glad Tidings, Album: Moondance

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• I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Boston, Done, Pieces

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• I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.

  Nina Garcia

  Mom, Office, Roles

  "Nina Garcia Is Celebrating Her Birthday With ‘An Extra Helping Of Dessert’" By Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!

  Peter Garrett

  Next, May, Expected

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

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• When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

  Tom Glazer

  Giving Up, Writing, Together

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• When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Country, Thinking, Hands

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• Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

  Bill Keller

  Believe, Principles, Wikileaks

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