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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Engagements
Speaking
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Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Behan / Poet
Marriage
Action
Demand
Engagements
Immediate
Inspirations
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We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
Adam Schiff / U.s. Representative
Engagement
Numbers
Troops
Engagements
Reduce
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Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
Danielle De Niese /
Agree
Opera
Advance
Engagements
Unfortunately
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Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements.
Om Malik /
Deeper
Conversations
Engagements
Landscapes
Sharing
Spark
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After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.
Sophie Monk / Singer
Baby
Eggs
Freeze
Two
Babies
Engagements
Get Married
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I have seen so many amazing love stories and engagements and I know how hard it is and how special it is to find that.
Chris Harrison / Television Host
Engagements
Love Stories
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It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.
Jon Huntsman, Jr. / Former Governor Of Utah
War
Add
Deployment
Taken
Wars
Engagements
Presidents
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Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.
Ellen Tauscher / Former United States Representative
Allies
Scarce
Stable
Engagements
Footing
Likely
Overnight
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One of the hidden benefits of me being a student manager at Kentucky was me having the responsibility of driving Rick Pitino to his motivational speaking engagements.
Frank Vogel / Coach
Benefits
Responsibility
Student
Engagements
Hidden
Manager
Rick
Speaking
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Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.
Robert Macneil / Novelist
Commitment
Engagement
Halfway
Last Year
Novel
Years
Commitments
Engagements
Speaking
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Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
George Mason / Statesman
Diligence
Engagement
Integrity
Mean
Performing
Strict
Attend
Engagements
Enter
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I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs.
Angelica Ross /
Expenses
Pay
Cover
Engagements
Mostly
Operating
Soon
Speaking
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt / Writer
Friendship
Breach
Breakup
Dine
Engagement
Intimacy
Promise
Punctuality
Alienate
Engagements
Few Things
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After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.
Joyce Banda / President Of Malawi
International
Life I Am Me
Life Me I Am
Engagements
Speaker
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In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war's shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire engagements built around manned, motorized armor.
Charles Duhigg / Writer
Armor
France
Germany
Massive
Conflicts
Engagements
Manned
Shift
Symbolized
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During my teen years, I just really started to get anxiety. I would get stage fright when I would do certain speaking engagements and I always would get through them, but it was a really nerve-racking and hard thing to do.
Skai Jackson /
Teen
Certain
Fright
Stage
Stage Fright
Years
Nerve-Racking
Engagements
Hard Thing
Speaking
Teen Years
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With more sponsors coming in, media engagements happening, and matches being televised, youngsters can get carried away. In such a scenario, a mentor can step in and help in channelising the cricketers' energies into the sport.
Mithali Raj /
Sponsors
Youngsters
Carried
Energies
Engagements
Matches
Scenario
Televised
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I have a lot of social engagements, and I like to dress up for them. I try to wear what I feel comfortable in, as self-confidence is so much about how you look. Generally, I love to wear long dresses; they make you feel special.
Marie-Chantal Claire /
Comfortable
Dresses
Special
Engagements
Generally
Love Look Dress
Wear
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I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with best wishes for yourself, family and circuit.
John Hawley /
Proud
Wish
Accommodation
Allow
Anytime
Be Happy
Circuit
Engagements
Furnish
Hear
Hour
Remain
Shall
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The church was everything: our social engagements, Sunday morning, Sunday evening. Wednesday night was the hour of power. We had Bible study on certain days. Saturday afternoon was choir practice. I wanted desperately to be a good Christian.
Leslie Jordan / Actor
Afternoon
Bible
Choir
Christian
Church
Evening
Practice
Saturday
Study
Sunday
Sunday Morning
Wednesday
Desperately
Engagements
Hour
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
Tasha Smith / Film Actress
Developing
Empowerment
Sitcom
Workshops
Bet
Women Beautiful World
Engagements
Hosting
Producing
Speaking
Tv Show
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I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.
Francois Hollande / President Of France
Afghanistan
Chicago
France
Troops
Two
Withdrawal
Afterwards
Announce
Defended
French
Washington
Engagements
Fully
Interests
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What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.
Chiang Kai-Shek / Former President Of The Republic Of China
Action
America
Bombing
Discharge
Dutch
Harbour
Important
Indication
Midway
Pacific
Sea
Sufficient
Tokyo
Been
Seen
Coral
Engagements
Island
Off
Her
Recent
Supremely
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My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself, but at an age where lots of people are thinking of retiring, so is having up to 20 or 30 engagements a day, and she's brilliant at it - she has always been brilliant with people.
Tom Parker Bowles /
Brilliant
Retiring
Apart
Engagements
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
Malcolm Gets /
Good Life
Helping
Juilliard
Los Angeles
Nyu
Life Good Good Life
Life Good Me
Life Good Always
Angeles
Engagements
Los
They Say
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As black Americans continue to be insulted and dismissed by protected white liberals, the Black Talented Tenth will continue to benefit from political donations, speaking engagements, national media presence, accolades as the official black leaders, and perpetual gigs on MSNBC and CNN.
Burgess Owens /
Accolades
Cnn
Gigs
Insulted
Perpetual
Protected
Benefit
Black Americans
Talented
Dismissed
Donations
Engagements
Liberals
Msnbc
National Media
Official
Presence
Tenth
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Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.
Seth Grahame-Smith / Author
Men
War
Civil War
Fascinated
Prepared
Reality
Ruthless
Aligned
Civil
Engagements
Neatly
Rows
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She used to drive me to clubs for engagements and when I was 16 I got a job presenting a TV show in Newcastle. My mum didn't really like driving, but she carried on. Once I remember we got stuck in a snow storm, but she carried on to get me there in time. She was an amazing, incredible person.
Lisa Stansfield / Singer-Songwriter
Clubs
Newcastle
Presenting
Snow
Storm
Time Amazing Me
Carried
Engagements
Tv Show
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The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.
Martin Mcguinness / Irish Politician
Dublin
Garden
Reaching
Remembrance
Acts
Charles
Elizabeth
Engagements
Queen
Peace Process
Prince Charles
Recognised
Showing
Unionist
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I went to school in New York and grew up in and out of New York. I love it, and I miss it, and every time I go back, I think, 'Why am I in Germany?' I do know that my career is really important to me, and in Germany, they've always been so much more supportive than my previous engagements in the dance world.
Sarah Hay /
Dance
New York
Germany
Supportive
Love Time Always
Love Time World
Miss
Engagements
Every Time
Previous
York
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So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards speaking engagements and literary festivals and dinner parties. That has no interest for me these days. You get to a point where you don't care anymore. At that point, you can start to write.
Lawrence Osborne /
Civilised
Festivals
Rooms
Dinner Parties
Engagements
Literary
No Interest
Oriented
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Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.
William Godwin / Journalist
Busy
Contemplation
Generous
Gross
Intercourse
Occupation
Recollection
Repose
Seasons
Turmoil
Vulgar
Woe
Always Man Must
Engagements
Inevitably
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