Happenings Quotes - Page 39

• A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

  Gertrude Stein

  Generations, Firsts, Conscious

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “PICASSO: Cubism and Its Impact”, p.26, e-artnow

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• I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know, I was brought up strictly kosher, but I - it made no sense to me. It made no sense to me what was happening. So nothing of it means anything to me. Nothing. Except these few little trivial things that are related to being Jewish. ... You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

  Maurice Sendak

  Religious, Regret, War

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• I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

  Brian Selznick

  Thinking, Drawing, Pages

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• We are told that when Hölderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'

  Paul Celan

  Mad

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• The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You cant have a government within the country and not have control over everything thats happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

  Salman Khurshid

  Country, Government, Election

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• There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.

  Tim Cook

  Country, Two, People

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• It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

  Jack Zipes

  Once Upon A Time, Fairy Tale, Certain

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• The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.

  Reed Hastings

  Government, Trying, Fiber

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• Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Eye, Gay, Acceptance

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• Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.

  Kapil Dev

  Party, Agency, Joining

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• Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.

  Pauly Shore

  People, Actors, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When we all sing in unison - sing in harmony - things come to us on levels that are much deeper than can be seen by the naked eye. Much deeper than even our subconscious. Things are happening.

  Jason Mraz

  Eye, Naked, Levels

  "Modern Music Masters: Jason Mraz". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 5, 2010.

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• When you write a show, you just never know if it will have a future or if the show will end up ever having a production, but, that doesn't mean that the songs - the best of the best songs - can't be pulled out and put on a CD. And, if the shows that they come from end up happening, then people will regard this as like a quirky little concept recording. And, if the shows don't end up happening, at least the songs will live on in some capacity.

  Michael Patrick Walker

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.

  Simon Pegg

  Boys, Littles, London

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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• We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Reality, Brain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If the experience of reality matters, than nothing is going to be better than dreaming. Because dreams feel real to everybody while they are happening. Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Real, Vivid Imagination

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, a horror movie just seems a little ridiculous.

  Rob Zombie

  War, Games, People

  "Rob Zombie Goes Six Feet Under with The Devil's Rejects". Interview with Movieweb, movieweb.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Fashion, Art, New York

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• The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Events, Fairness

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Everything that's happening in our world is a function of what is going on inside of people. We are violent in our minds. We are violent with one another. We walk past one another in the street and don't even look nor make eye contact - don't speak. We can be outraged about the missiles and the planes. I'm more outraged that somebody will walk past me in the street and not look me in the face and say good morning.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Morning, Eye, Past

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.

  Bell Hooks

  College, Class, People

  Source: bknation.org

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• Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Dark, Emotional

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• If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Fall, Space, Hands

  Interview with Karleigh Moore, tech.mit.edu. April 1, 2014.

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• Many people are dreaming. Let me rent. Let me have a job. Let me work until I'm 70. That's not what the American Dream used to be. It used to be, let me own a home. Let me retire at 59 and a half or 65 at the latest. Let me do this. And now, really, given what's happened, good luck with anything happening unless you do it yourself.

  Suze Orman

  Dream, Jobs, Good Luck

  "Suze Orman Says Oprah Taught Her An 'Encyclopedia Version Of Life'". "Tell Me More" with Micchel Martin, www.npr.org. May 24, 2011.

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• I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Numbers, Care

  "VA scandal 'a gift from God' because it showed Americans how bad Obamacare will be, conservative commentator Ben Carson says" by Francesca Chambers, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 25, 2014.

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