Happened Quotes - Page 24

• After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

  Leon Panetta

  War, Fall, Cutting

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• It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

  Rosa Parks

  Tired, Demand, Made

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• My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

  Danica Patrick

  Cancer, Red Flags, People

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• I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Holiday, Glasses

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• During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Rights, Voting

  "Rand Paul at Howard University". The Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Years, Pieces

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• Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

  Ron Paul

  War, Thinking, Assessment

  "The Ron Paul Problem". Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

  Jane Pauley

  Thinking, Way, Kind

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• Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

  Joe Perry

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Song, Grateful

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• I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.

  Michael Phelps

  Guy, Kind

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• Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Children, Humorous

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• I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Thinking, Oil, Iraq

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• I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Childhood, Trauma

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• Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

  Jimmy Piersall

  Nuts, Best Things

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• The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, Would Be, Debt

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• I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

  Paula Poundstone

  Years, Numbers, Degrees

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• The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Thinking, Doctors

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• I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.

  Chris Pratt

  Ideas, Pay, Way

  "Dumb Luck". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

  Elvis Presley

  Trends, Music Business

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• I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

  Richard Pryor

  Movie, Missing, Being Thankful

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• Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

  Pliny the Elder

  Courage, Grief, Adversity

  "Letters, vol. 2". Book by Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth and Winifred Margaret Lambart Hutchinson, Book VIII, Letter 17, 6, 1935.

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• I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Missing, Stronger, Lessons

  "Golden girl Paula Radcliffe lowers her sights to the Olympic bronze". Interview with Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

  Robert Redford

  Book, Writing, Stories

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• The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Country, Art, Jobs

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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