Happened Quotes - Page 19

• What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

  William Glasser

  Past, Needs, Littles

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• To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

  William Glasser

  Victim, Passive, Over It

  "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom". Book by William Glasser (p. 75), 1997.

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• I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

  Selena Gomez

  Role Models, Roles, Want

  "Selena Gomez: I Make Mistakes All the Time". Interview with Alla Byrne, people.com. June 16, 2011.

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• The facts are always less than what really happened.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Facts

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.76, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Confusing, Everyday

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• I feel like everything has happened naturally.

  Ryan Gosling

  Feels

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. April 2, 2004.

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• I don't think there was ever a moment when I was like, 'Yeah, I want to be a singer!' I guess it just happened. I performed a lot when I was younger and stuff, but I remember getting to the point where I thought I might have to get a normal job.

  Ellie Goulding

  Jobs, Thinking, Want

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• The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

  Michael Gove

  Teacher, Different, Bigs

  'The Andrew Marr Show',, news.bbc.co.uk. November 21, 2010.

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• I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

  Amy Grant

  Christian, Things In Life, Comforting

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• There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

  Brian Greene

  Creating, Bangs, May

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

  Sammy Hagar

  Artist, Opposites, Solo

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• We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.

  Larry Hagman

  Memorable, Dallas, Moments

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• I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

  Mohsin Hamid

  America, Years, Half

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• But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

  Scott Hamilton

  Successful, Skating, Would Be

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• Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.

  Herbie Hancock

  Teacher, People, Identity

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• You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

  Nhat Hanh

  Years, Despair, Calm

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Overcoming, Culture

  "New Brunswick Telegraph Journal", May 29, 2002.

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• When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

  Katherine Heigl

  Mother, Grateful, Focus

  "This Mom's Life: Katherine Heigl" by Cortney Pellettieri, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2012.

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• All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Farewell To Arms, Common

  "Papa Hemingway". Book by A. E. Hotchner. Part 2, Chapter 7, 1966.

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• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  O. Henry

  New York, Littles, Old New York

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.439, 谷月社

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• Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

  Thierry Henry

  Hurt, Sleep, Past

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• I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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• I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

  Jonah Hill

  Crazy, Real, Mean

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• If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

  James Hillman

  Inspirational, Change, Hurt

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• Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

  James Hillman

  Loss, United States, Different

  "America and the Shift in Ages: An Interview with Jungian James Hillman". Interview With Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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