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In 1996, Trump had crashed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a charity opening a nursery school for children with AIDS. Trump, who had never donated to the charity, stole a seat onstage that had been saved for a big contributor.

~David Fahrenthold

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Somebody said something funny to me the other day. They said, 'Wolper, until two weeks ago, your tombstone was going to say, 'David Wolper, the man who produced 'Roots.' I think the tombstone now has a new inscription. It's going to be 'David Wolper, the man who produced the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics.'

~David L. Wolper

Topics: Ceremony David Day Funny Going Inscription Man Me New Now Olympics Opening Other Produced Roots Said Say Somebody Something Think Tombstone Two Two Weeks Until Weeks Who Your I Think

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I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

~Denise Mina

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When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn't really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.

~Dirk Nowitzki

Topics: About Also Award Big Ceremony Cuban Eyes Golden Had His Honor How Huge Just Loss Mark Most Nba Player Realize Really Season State Tears Think Until Valuable Will Winning I Think

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New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Age Ceremony Circles Come Dying Endures Feel Grow Longer Losses Me Metaphor New Old Old Age Poems Preferable Prose Smaller Which Whole I Feel

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We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

~Duong Van Minh

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I didn't really know what to expect. I had been told about the scale of Cannes, but nothing could have prepared me for just how many people would turn out for our photo calls or for the opening ceremony.

~Elizabeth Debicki

Topics: About Been Calls Cannes Ceremony Could Expect Had How How Many People Just Know Many Me Nothing Opening Our Out People Photo Prepared Really Scale Turn Would

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Marriage is not a magical potion that serves to amplify adoration, reduce deep-seated feelings of resentment, erase fears of commitment, or answer questions about whether or not this is the right move. Marriage is a ceremony that cements your current bond to another human being, and while that's a huge thing, that's all it does.

~Emily V. Gordon

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When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.

~Eric Massa

Topics: Against America Bill Ceremony Chief Crossing He Heard Jersey Line Me New New Jersey Phone President Rang Since Staff Started States Swearing Terms United United States United States Of America Voted Words

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The Bachelor'... and 'The Bachelorette'... and 'Bachelor in Paradise'... and the 'After the Final Rose ceremony'. I love a competition dating show.

~Erin Foster

Topics: After Bachelor Ceremony Competition Dating Final Love Paradise Rose Show I Love

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