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• This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back.

  Ann Hood

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  Tags in Lips, Occasion

• On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I’m still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, ‘That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,’ should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.

  Lester Holt

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  Tags in Occasion, Talks

• I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion – just when we’re in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

  Daniel Handler

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  Tags in Bookstore, Occasion

• 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

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  Tags in Honour, Occasion

• 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

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  Tags in Hope, Occasion

• 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

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  Tags in Occasion

• Today’s date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Occasion, Sometime, International

• It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.

  Pauline Hanson

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  Tags in Think, Occasion

• True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

  Gerrit Smith

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  Tags in True, Slavery, Occasion

• There was one occasion when I was very young – eight years or seven years old – that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

  Shimon Peres

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  Tags in Occasion

• On occasion we need to make a second effort – and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

  Thomas S. Monson

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  Tags in Occasion, Achieve

• My mom won’t let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it’s TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Topics in Birthday

  Tags in Occasion, Won

• I like stirring things up. I’m on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don’t get in too much trouble.

  William Joyce

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  Tags in Occasion, Adult

• The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.

  Wes Boyd

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  Tags in Occasion, Current

• I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.

  Raymond Berry

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  Tags in Appreciate, Paris, Occasion

• We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Occasion, Conquerors, Lose

• Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

  Joseph Addison

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  Tags in Occasion, Man, Courage

• To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

  Melvin Calvin

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  Tags in Occasion, Normally, Feelings

• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

  Albert Camus

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  Tags in Solitude, Introspection, Retreat, Occasion, World, Understand

• When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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  Tags in Occasion, Fix, Tried