Happened Quotes - Page 25

• The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile vomited all over the stage. It was horrible.

  Joan Rivers

  Stage, Horrible, Worst

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• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  Pat Robertson

  Evil, Triumph, Down And

  "Pat Robertson: Pray for justices to retire". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2003.

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• Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

  Pat Robertson

  Long, People, Devil

  "Pat Robertson: Haiti ‘Cursed’ By ‘Pact To The Devil’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Details, Irony, Remember

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• I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

  Anne Roiphe

  Reading, Writing, Choices

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• I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Thinking, Black

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• Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

  Mitt Romney

  Anniversary, Mom, Morning

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Children, Actors, Young

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• I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

  Andy Rooney

  Funny Life, Age, Lucky

  "Factbox: Quotes from '60 Minutes' commentator Andy Rooney". Compiled by Bill Trott, www.reuters.com. November 05, 2011.

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• I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Lucky, Widows, Ensemble

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• Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

  Karl Rove

  Eye, Years, Hawks

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• I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Determination, Giving Up

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Life, Years, Sometimes

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• In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

  Salman Rushdie

  Iran, Islam, Trying

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• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  Salman Rushdie

  Views, Islam, Messengers

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• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  Salman Rushdie

  Europe, England, World

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• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Pride, Thinking

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• What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, People, Pakistan

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• God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Vietnam, Occupation, Driven

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• This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Careers, Scary, Conducting

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• Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

  Jerry Saltz

  Political, Pages, Today

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• In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

  Jerry Saltz

  Mean, Artist, America

  "Great Artists Steal". nymag.com. May 10, 2009.

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• Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Order, Careers

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• My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

  Ryne Sandberg

  I Love You, Cute Love, Romantic

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• History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

  George Santayana

  Fear, Lying, People

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