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• I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.

  Chuck Lorre

  Karma, Believe, Law

  "Running A Comedy Machine: How Chuck Lorre Makes Hits". "Morning Edition" with Neda Ulaby, www.npr.org. November 27, 2012.

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• Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

  Wallace Tripp

  Book, Shoes, Feet

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• Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.

  Elizabeth Reyes

  Trying, Irony, Ready

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• Obscurity is where God sends all His favorite sons and daughters. Our society tells us that if and when we get ‘there’—the job or position or degree we’ve always wanted, the notoriety we’ve always dreamed of—that’s when all the important stuff will start happening. Not so. All the good stuff happens in obscurity.

  Jonathan Martin

  Daughter, Jobs, Son

  Jonathan Martin, Steven Furtick (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.65, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

  Randy Newman

  Everyday, Might, Shows

  "My Life Is Good: Chatting With Randy Newman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2011.

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• If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth.

  Daoud Hari

  Beautiful, Home, Writing

  Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.10, Random House

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• By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.

  Taylor Negron

  Letting Go, Enjoy, Happenings

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• All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

  Albie Sachs

  Revolution, Impossible, Inevitable

  Albie Sachs (2011). “The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter”, p.133, Souvenir Press

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• If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

  John Wooden

  Enough, Bigs, Big Things

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• Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Real, Needs, Christ

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• Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Believe, Growth

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• Align with nature... Magic happens

  John Friend

  Magic

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• We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

  Oswald Chambers

  Teaching, Character, Thinking

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.39, Discovery House

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  Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Waiting

  "Mentor, entertainer and radio presenter". New Era interview, www.newera.com.na. October 3, 2014.

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• What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Dark, Media, Civilization

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• People with the best intentions will often give you advice on why you shouldn’t take a risk because of what could happen. While some of what they say may be true, you should never allow them to get their negative anchors into your mind because, like them, you too will begin to sink. Next time this happens, throw them a life-line, and ask them what is good about their situation.

  Bob Proctor

  Anchors, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 17, 2013

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• I just want to go play, go win, What's going to happen is what's going to happen. I'm not worried too much about it.

  Marc-Andre Fleury

  Winning, Play, Want

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• The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.

  Carlos Gavito

  Dance, Impossible Things, Silence

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• Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.

  Dustin Poirier

  Stress, Mma, Focus

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• Now, I happen to be an optimist.

  Ronald Reagan

  Optimist

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• To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.

  Ryan Holiday

  Joy, Tragedy, Needs

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• Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That’s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics.

  Umair Haque

  Meaningful, Real, People

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• I think something must happen to you when you get into eight grade. Like the Doug Swieteck's Brother Gene switches on and you become a jerk.
  Which may have been Hamlet, Prince of Denmark's problem, who, besides having a name that makes him sound like a breakfast special at Sunnyside Morning Restaurant--something between a ham slice and a three-egg omelet--didn't have the smarts to figure out that when someone takes the trouble to come back from beyond the grave to tell you that he's been murdered, it's probably behooveful to pay attention--which is the adjectival form.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Morning, Brother, Smart

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• No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

  Daniel Cormier

  Adversity, People, Goal

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• Trends are manufactured. Real things just happen.

  Eicca Toppinen

  Real, Trends, Real Things

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