Happenings Quotes - Page 25

For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.

Rebecca Solnit

Airplane, Two, Interesting

"Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Tom Sizemore

Believe, Actors, Firsts

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Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

Richard Trumka

People, Pay, Corporations

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Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

Don Tapscott

Leader, Looks, Way

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There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

John Thune

Country, Children, Years

"Senator John Thune Doesn't Plan to Run For President". www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2011.

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In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Peter Thiel

Growth, Stuff, Today

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A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

Keith Urban

Song, Good Life, Life Changing

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There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

Andy Williams

Stupid, Thinking, People

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I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.

Dan Wheldon

Thinking, Years, Waiting

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I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

Jennifer Weiner

Book, Kids, Different

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I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.

Jessie Ware

Thinking, Appreciate, Want

"Jessie Ware, Mercury Prize Nominee, Preps EP for U.S. Release" by Richard Smirke, www.billboard.com. December 08, 2012.

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When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.

Jim Wallis

Sex, Leader, President

"Frontline", www.pbs.org. April 29, 2004.

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Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

Venus Williams

Moving, Knowing, Years

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If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

Sean Young

Responsibility, People, Want

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

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There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.

Jessica Pare

Stars, Real, Character

Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, People, Meditation

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Just as I defend myself, therefore,
From all unpleasant happenings however small,
Likewise, I shall act for others' sake
To guard and to protect them with compassion.

Shantideva

Compassion, Sake, Protect

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A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

Joan Z. Borysenko

Encouragement, Optimistic, Adversity

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what's happening. If I can't solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to.

Harold Geneen

Philosophy, Believe, People

"Harold S. Geneen, 87, Dies; Nurtured ITT" by Kenneth N. Gilpin, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 1997.

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It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.

Cornelius Plantinga

Thanksgiving, Christian, Being Thankful

Cornelius Plantinga (2001). “Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask”, p.52, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

Stephen LaBerge

Dream, Sleep, Eye

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Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

Aasif Mandvi

Children, Making Love, Hot

"I get to sit on the fence between cultures" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2009.

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A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

Gucci Mane

People, Beats, Good And Bad

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We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

Andie MacDowell

Doe, Sometimes, Remarkable

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Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

Ann Macbeth

Reflection, Years, Training

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