Happenings Quotes - Page 26

• The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

  Ann Macbeth

  Drama, Opportunity, Light

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• My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

  Barry Manilow

  Goal, Involved

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

  Barry McGuire

  Thinking, World, Way

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• I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.

  Breckin Meyer

  Girl, Cheating, Kissing

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

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• I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

  Fred Melamed

  Eight, Islands, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Growing Up, Heart, Feel Good

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• Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Smart, Opportunity, Phones

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• When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.

  John Hodgman

  Fun, Teenager, World

  "John Hodgman's songs for Ragnarok, the end of days". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2012.

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• If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

  Paolo Maldini

  Children, Stories, Imagine

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• In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.

  Allan Kaprow

  Taken, Home, Artist

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It’s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.

  Dennis Cooper

  Love You, Thinking, Feelings

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• I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Numbers, America

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Crooked Wood", p. 208), 1977.

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• What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity.

  Masai Ujiri

  Atrocities, Absolutes, Nigeria

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• NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening

  Charles Petzold

  Space, Causes, Instruction

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• I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

  Thom Yorke

  Fighting, Musician, Doe

  "Thom Yorke calls Spotify 'the last desperate fart of a dying corpse'". Sopitas Newspaper Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 07, 2013.

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• Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Violence, Happened

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• You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.

  Bill Ayers

  Eye, Responsibility, Political

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• It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening.

  Charlie Melancon

  Needs, Duty

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• I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.

  Jonas Mekas

  Reality, Essence, Challenges

  "Jonas Mekas: Anthology Film Archives". Interview with Terence Teh, www.dazeddigital.com. April 27, 2011.

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• I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.

  Colleen Hoover

  Needs, Remember Who You Are, Want

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Past, Ideas, Mind

  Sakyong Miphan Rinpoche (2004). “Turning the Mind Into an Ally”, p.108, Penguin

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• Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Letting Go, Laughter

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• I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.

  Marilyn Manson

  Artist, Ideas, America

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• I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Running, Years, Sweat

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• Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

  James Donald

  Vietnam, Remember, Claims

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