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I love finding, wearing, and more recently, photographing and blogging a different, colorful, crazy outfit for every single occasion.
It's a very rare occasion that you get to actually witness an iceberg rolling.
On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners.
And the reason I'm looking a little bit perplexed in this photograph is I was somewhat frightened, and I was too afraid on this occasion to ask him, having run for an hour through the desert and taken refuge in this house, why he had turned up and wanted to have his photograph taken with me.
But in order to try and explain the whole thing, I would need another 18 minutes or so to do it, so you're just going to have to take it on trust from me on this occasion, and let me assure you that all of these issues are involved in cybersecurity and control of the Internet one way or the other, but in a configuration that even Stephen Hawking would probably have difficulty trying to get his head around.
I used to love going to this store, but on one occasion I asked myself, well how come you never buy anything?
On one occasion, when we were up in Malin Head in Donegal, the shark smacked the side of the boat with his tail, more, I think, in startle to the fact that a boat came near it, rather than the tag going in.
I had seen the film on the occasion of my father's 50th birthday.
And it's the combination of these things that has led me to the hobby of sound visualization, and, on occasion, has led me to play with fire.
First of all, you need to be impressive and intimidating and demonstrate your vigor on occasion and show that you are very strong, and there's all sorts of ways of doing that.
Number 13: On occasion, the victim, female or male, may experience a physical response, but this is not a sexual response in the sense of desire or mutuality."
On one occasion I was doing it, every time I did a point that they didn't like, they actually threw stones at me, and when I did a point they liked, they starting shooting in the air, equally not great.
On that occasion, I found my wife carrying something like this.
At this moment, I saw an opportunity for the girls to rise to the occasion and to become their own heroes.
The point is, we have to let our children succeed on their own terms, and yes, on occasion, fail on their own terms.
You'll notice this if you ever have occasion to record yourself or a group of people talking.
And what they were saying on this occasion was that our competitors had to build new buildings for the new technology.
I said we can be grateful in every given moment for the opportunity, and even when we are confronted with something that is terribly difficult, we can rise to this occasion and respond to the opportunity that is given to us.
It was simply going to be an occasion where I didn't have AIDS and I wasn't dying, but could tolerate the fact that they did and they were.
On more than one occasion, I fell asleep and they had to push me out of the way at the end of the session.
If you have the occasion, do visit the former Stasi prison in Berlin and attend a guided tour with a former political prisoner who will explain to you how this worked.
And on the first occasion that I visited his house, he gave me honor of deciding what piece of music we would listen to.
On the occasion of my first visit, we toured his house and we saw hundreds of works of museum quality, and then we paused in front of a closed door and Dr. Robicsek said, with obvious pride, "Now for the piece De resistance."
Despite being paralyzed and not having any sensation from mid-chest to the tip of his toes as the result of a car crash six years ago that killed his brother and produced a complete spinal cord lesion that left Juliano in a wheelchair, Juliano rose to the occasion, and on this day did something that pretty much everybody that saw him in the six years deemed impossible.
But the point is, in that kind of occasion, usually children try to hide somewhere.
And in this kind of occasion, they learn to help each other.
To celebrate the occasion, the regime shut down all universities, and sent students off to the fields to build the DPRK's much-heralded ideal as the world's most powerful and prosperous nation.
So if I wanted to call my friend Peter Sprague on the phone, my secretary would get his head out and bring it and set it on the desk, (Laughter) and that would be the TV used for the occasion.
So while he filmed me, I kept following the trail of red paint with a single light and a point-and-shoot camera that we kept for that type of occasion.
On a rare occasion, like in the year 2000, someone can win the popular vote but fail to gain 270 electoral votes.
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