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• There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Baby, Nice, Differences

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• What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Men, Ignorant

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• Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

  Mark Hoppus

  School, Differences, Long

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• Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

  David Icke

  Veils, Again And Again, Versions

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sarcastic, Wise, Sarcasm

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.

  Tony Iommi

  Blue, Gigs, Said

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• You can only predict things after they have happened.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Rhinoceros

  'Le Rhinocèros' (1959) act 3

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• When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

  John Irving

  Notebook, Writing, School

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• As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Literature, Self Deception

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Aug 07, 2014

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• When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

  Hugh Jackman

  Daughter, Mother, Running

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

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• When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.

  Janet Jackson

  Regret, Who I Am, Feel Good

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• J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

  LaToya Jackson

  Believe, Past, Talent

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• When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

  LeBron James

  Mom, Mother, Years

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• Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

  William James

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

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• How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Fear, Self Esteem

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• I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.

  Joan Jett

  Country, Heart, Thinking

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• Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

  Joan Jett

  New Year, Couple, Years

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• I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Success, Creativity

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Money, Humorous, Insightful

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Shoes, Economic Inequality

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, edited by Mary Field Parton, (p. 46), 2004.

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• If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.

  Victoria Justice

  Thinking, Giving, Wake Up

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• The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Movement, Evolution

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

  Paul Kagame

  Clock, Harm, Turns

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• After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

  Daniel Kahneman

  World, Facts, Illusion

  "This much I know: Daniel Kahneman". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

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• Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.

  Mindy Kaling

  Cancer, Struggle, Trying

  "Mindy Kaling Loves Rom Coms (And Being The Boss)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2017.

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