Meetings Quotes - Page 40

• You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Chance, Chance Meeting, Knows

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• Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he's president that he'll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys network in Washington.' Now I'm not making this up. This is somebody who's been in Congress for twenty-six years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he's the one who's gonna' to take on the old boys network. The old boys network? In the McCain campaign that's called a staff meeting. Come, on!

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Boys, Years

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• In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Mean

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• I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.

  Nicole Eggert

  Regret, Writing, Men

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• I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

  Ariana Grande

  Beautiful, Fun, Kids

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• She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.

  Dick Ebersol

  Sexy, Leather Pants, Firsts

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• I think that you may find that Tamera's a little more vibrant and energetic, but I'm much more likely to go up to a person and say, "Hi, I'm Tia, nice to meet you". Wheras Tamera is like...well ...she's a little shy. She's down to earth. I'm more extroverted and she's more introverted when meeting people.

  Tia Mowry

  Nice, Thinking, People

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

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• My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.

  Jon Snow

  Home, Cycling, Car

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• I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

  Robert Orben

  Family, Kids, Names

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• Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

  Andy Samberg

  Want, Snl, Ends

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 01, 2007.

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• I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.

  Geoffrey Rush

  People, Giving, Mind

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• According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now.

  Wayne Mack

  Age, Church, Together

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• Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I’ve always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

  Olivia

  Hard Times, Matter, Grew Up

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God's agenda.It's not.Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Sex, Couple

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

  Chris Wedge

  Winning, Office, Oscars

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

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• As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

  Brad Sherman

  Achievement, Athletic, Champion

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• Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced meditators concentrating on emptiness can meditate on emptiness for a long time with little effort. Their minds soar through space-like emptiness, undistracted by any other phenomenon. When we meditate on emptiness we should try to emulate these meditators.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Eagles, Sky, Space

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.98, Tharpa Publications US

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• A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.

  E. Michael Burke

  Baseball, Games, Cities

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• I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined to gloomy apprehensions; and I was ever persuaded that a belief that we must at length end in something like a British constitution, had some weight in his adoption of the ceremonies of levees, birthdays, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the same character, calculated to prepare us gradually for a change which he believed possible, and to let it come on with as little shock as might be to the public mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.237

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• I love meeting Israeli people. They look at me like a son

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Son, Israel, People

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• On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Heart, Istanbul, Cities

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• I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

  Joseph Stefano

  Hiking, People, Agents

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• These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

  Lewis Tappan

  Character, Interesting, Attention

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• I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

  Janet Suzman

  Real, Character, Blood

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• I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

  Jim Wallis

  People, President, Desire

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