Occasions Quotes - Page 17

• I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,' I am going to grab my laptop and just knock out a few more emails, or start sketching up some product ideas for TheMuse.com. So when I want time off, I schedule dinners out, movie outings, and on occasion a flight lesson from Groupon.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Home, Ideas, Trying

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• It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

  Alexander Woollcott

  Marriage, Bed, Companion

  Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

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• The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Important, Troops, Borders

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Silence, Rare Occasion, Gym

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• I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

  Jamie Oliver

  Cake, Want, Celebrate

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

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• Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.

  Josh Peck

  Different, Way, Different Ways

  "Josh Peck Talks RED DAWN, How He Landed the Role, Watching the Original Film, Boot Camp Training, Working with Chris Hemsworth and Hopes to Direct". Interview, collider.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

  Brenda Lee

  Wish, Joyous

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• Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Queens, Hands, Office

  "Queen urges Cwealth leaders to be bold". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. October 28, 2011.

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• Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

  Dick Pound

  Opportunity, Defining Moments, Arise

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• I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

  Taylor Phinney

  Basketball, Football, Party

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• Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.

  Samantha Stosur

  Sports, Years, People

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

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• We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Play, Entrepreneur

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• Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.

  Jim Talent

  Interesting, Insightful, Agendas

  "Romney Fires Back At Gingrich". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 8, 2011.

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• I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

  Ratan Tata

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Moving, Games, People

  Press conference, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Football, Moving, Years

  "Howard Wilkinson's LMA survey reveals depth of managers' dedication" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?

  Michael Cunningham

  Real, Writing, Mean

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• Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Motivational, Dream, Waiting

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• Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime-if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more-was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

  Jess C Scott

  Beautiful, Reflection, Superficial Things

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “The Other Side of Life (Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy, Book 1, Pre-Final Version)”, p.68, jessINK

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• I love Robert Fripp. You know what I really appreciate about Robert Fripp? He always dresses appropriately for the occasion. When he's on stage, he's a Dapper Dan.

  St. Vincent

  Appreciate, Dresses, Dapper

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2011.

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• In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it; but have left them as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of State or Church authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Independent, Exercise

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.77, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Mother, Father, Games

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• Booking an act for my Dad's 70th birthday, I wanted a great act and went straight to John Archer- his reputation in the magic world is among the very best. I was so pleased he was able to do it, and he absolutely brought the house down. It was brilliant, hysterically funny, and perfectly pitched for the occasion. He made the evening. I'd recommend him unreservedly.

  Derren Brown

  Dad, Archer, House

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• I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.

  John Legend

  Dresses, Republic, Bananas

  "John Legend On Fashion Trends" by Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Real, War, Believe

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