Happened Quotes - Page 28

• I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Mistake, Hands

  "Dwyane Wade Talks New Book, ‘A Father First,’ And What He Plans To Teach His Sons About Women" By Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

  Lech Walesa

  Fall, Speaks Out, Silence

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• One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.

  Christopher Walken

  Father, Thinking, Play

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• I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?

  Julie Walters

  Character, Phones, Play

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• I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

  Emma Watson

  Scary, Acting, Very Famous

  "Emma Watson In ‘Marie Claire’: Talks Working Childhood, ‘Protective’ College Classmates", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.

  Emma Watson

  Kissing, Needs, First Kiss

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• The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

  James D. Watson

  Father, Believe, Soul

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• My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Husband, Father, Teenager

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• Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

  Anthony Weiner

  Law, Looks, Internet

  "Anthony Weiner Addresses Twitter Photo Controversy", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2011.

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• I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

  Florence Welch

  Girl, Art, Hype

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• Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

  Orson Welles

  Strong Women, Agents, Lawyer

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• Some stories are true that never happened.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Dream, Writing

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• It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ghetto, People, Car

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.

  Olivia Wilde

  School, Artist, Earthquakes

  "Exclusive: Olivia Wilde on Music, Haiti, and Making a Difference". Interview with Catherine Straut, www.elle.com. October 1, 2012.

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• In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

  Juan Williams

  College, Florida, Worst Case Scenario

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• I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

  Robbie Williams

  Rocks, Lasts, Firsts

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• Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

  Robbie Williams

  Blow, Drug, Judgement

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• The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

  Walter Winchell

  Yesterday And Today, People, Different

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• The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

  Tom Wolfe

  Art, Romantic Love, Games

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Painted Word”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Humor, Programming

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, People, Finding Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Writing, Mind, Overcoming

  "Why Businesses Need to Reshape Society" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Real, Important, Madrid

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• It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Soccer, Time, Kids

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• Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Jobs, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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