Happenings Quotes - Page 32

• We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Eye, Axes, Order

  "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Book 1)". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

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• Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

  Lennart Meri

  World, Soviet, Understood

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• Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.

  Wanda Urbanska

  Role Models, Community, Library

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• If you are in NYC and you only do one thing culturally go and see Carol Lipnik at Pangea. If you love music and appreciate great songwriting and singing, if you came to NYC to experience magical happenings in tiny rooms that could never happen anyplace else in the world, if you dreamed of intimate nights surrounded by smart, talented, interesting people, this is what you're here for.
  Now DON'T MISS IT!!!!

  Justin Vivian Bond

  Smart, Night, Nyc

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• Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted -- while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Thinking, America, Erosion

  "Americans need to discover how the world sees them" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill her/its/his promise." Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years on, others begin to realize that, really, something extraordinary was actually happening.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Years, People

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thinking, Ipods, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are not stupid. And the one thing they understand, they understand how incredibly mismanaged and bungled this war has been by the civilians in this administration. And - I mean, you can't paper over that, any more than you can paper over Katrina.

  Joe Biden

  War, Stupid, Mean

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2006.

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• I can't watch the news. It's extremely unsettling. Certain people can be a little desensitized because of movies, and I'm totally a part of that world, so I understand. But when you're actually seeing what's happening, you can't help but be a little affected.

  Selena Gomez

  People, Watches, News

  "Selena Gomez Talks RUDDERLESS, Sympathizing with the Character, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2, Where Her Career Is Headed, and More". Interveiw with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

  Ali Banisadr

  Thinking, Way, Painting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Politics is like watching football. Yes, you can see it directly on your screen, but I think a lot of people want to have some understanding of what's happening, why the play is unfolding the way it is, and I think that's where it can help them, not to render judgments but to help people make their own judgments in a more informed way.

  David Gergen

  Football, Thinking, Yes You Can

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• The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.

  John Legend

  Real, Thinking, Sight

  "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008.

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• Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They're coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you're going to come here if you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that's what's happening.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Heart, America

  The third and final presidential debate between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry, www.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2004.

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• Benchmarks, yes, we want the Iraqi government to do the things that will show progress. But to say, American troops are going to leave, no matter what's happening on the ground, is surrender. There is no other word for it.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Government, Progress, Want

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• Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

  Paul Muldoon

  Confusion, Able, Make Sense

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• Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.

  Steven Spielberg

  Believe, Dinosaurs, Made

  "The Making of Jurassic Park". Book by Don Shay and Jody Duncan, 1993.

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• What is happening to human resources in Punjab. Seven out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Drug, Youth, Problem

  "7 out of 10 youths in Punjab have drug problem: Rahul". www.rediff.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

  David Icke

  People, Different, Today

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• I think there's something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It's impossible to articulate, and it's happening now, almost like a perverse secret. . . . That's always sort of fascinating to me.

  Miranda July

  Spiritual, Thinking, Secret

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

  Robert Jordan

  Necks, Spears, Collars

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.1869, Macmillan

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• That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Dark, Sacrifice, Self

  Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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• There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Important, Use

  BuzzFlash interview, September 11, 2003.

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• It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.

  Eva LaRue

  Character, Thinking, Consistency

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• I'm an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.

  Heath Ledger

  Real, Freak, Damn

  The Times (London), July 1, 2000.

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• The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

  John McCain

  Democracy, Doe, World

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