Happened Quotes - Page 23

• I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Veils, Wanted

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• Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Kids, Night

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  Mandy Moore

  Florida, Musical, Singing

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• I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

  Alanis Morissette

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "Alanis Morissette on Her New Album, Changing Diapers, and Celebrity: 'Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow'". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

  Jim Morrison

  Funny, Music, Nightlife

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• I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

  Samantha Morton

  Children, Moving, Childhood

  "The Unloved: An Interview with Samantha Morton". Birds Eye View Interview, www.birds-eye-view.co.uk. February 15, 2010.

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• The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Age, Youth, Young

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton"

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• My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Father, War

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• Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

  Haruki Murakami

  Successful, Careers, Novelists

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Zero, Two, People

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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• We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

  Graham Nash

  Anniversary, Song, Emotional

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• What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Past, Champion

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• It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

  Liam Neeson

  Littles, Tiny, Grew Up

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• The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

  Howard Nemerov

  Nice, Two, Giving

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• For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

  Stevie Nicks

  Friendship, Song, Night

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• Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Girl, Mother, Baby

  "Brigitte Nielsen" by Nick McGrath, July 29, 2011.

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• If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.

  Grover Norquist

  Country, Party, People

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• When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Yesterday, Political, Demise

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• The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

  Michelle Obama

  Fun, Thinking, Everyday

  "Michelle Obama: Obesity Campaign about Balance". The Associated Press, www.cbsnews.com. February 08, 2011.

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• Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Home, Childhood

  "Slam dunk - interview with basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon". Interview with Spike Lee, February 1994.

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• There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

  Gary Oldman

  Years, Spy, Osama Bin Laden

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• It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Black, Might

  "Yoko Ono: What I've Learned" by Tom Jundo, www.esquire.com. December 8, 2010.

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• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Planets, Feels

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Home, Past

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