Happens Quotes - Page 32

• To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

  Richard Lewontin

  Miracle, May, Deities

  "Billions and Billions of Demons". www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

  Zedd

  Song, Track, Goal

  "Zedd says Hayley Williams 'fits so well' on 'stay the night'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

  Larry Brilliant

  Heart, Wings, People

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• If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

  Monty Oum

  Dream, Effort, May

  "Monty Oum: A Life Remembered" by Mateo Hurtado Statz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2015.

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• The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. [...] That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.

  Adam Gopnik

  Fear, Real, Self

  "Hurricane Irene: Storm Warnings". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2011.

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• I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

  William Manchester

  Fear, Worst, I Realized

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• Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Mean, Thinking

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• At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.

  Rebecca Wells

  Fear, Brave, Bears

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

  Eric Butterworth

  May, Matter, Cognitive Therapy

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• Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce some people's opportunity to grab the bottom rung of the economic ladder to get the opportunities and the skills that you need to move up that economic ladder.

  Kevin Madden

  Moving, Opportunity, Skills

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• We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

  Paul Krugman

  Hiking, Adverse Effects, Political

  "Better Pay Now" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. December 01, 2013.

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• When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

  John Boehner

  People, Political, Employment

  "What if there were no minimum wage?" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2013.

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• We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

  Chris Christie

  Cost Of Living, People, Political

  "Christie Says He’ll Reject Bill to Lift N.J. Minimum Wage" by Terrence Dopp, www.bloomberg.com. June 8, 2012.

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• There's a portion of the movie where something bad happens to me, and I lose my clothes along the way, so essentially I'm wearing a bra and trousers. There are certain requirements, but luckily I have a good base because I work out often.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Clothes, Work Out

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• I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.

  Eric McCormack

  Years, Would Be, Accomplished

  "Whatever you Will" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2003.

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• It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

  Kimbra

  Home, America, Australia

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• People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

  Rohit Sharma

  Ideas, People, Want

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• Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

  Germaine Greer

  World, Slavery, Abandonment

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

  Chanel Iman

  Want, Supermodel, Take Time

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• The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is for people who have knowledge of these substances to share it, "coming out" about their own experiences. Drug education should be honest and present a balanced picture of risks and benefits.

  Rick Doblin

  People, Drug, Risk

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• Risk means more things can happen than will happen.

  Elroy Dimson

  Mean, Risk, Investing

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• Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Worry, Doe, Clock

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, you cannot screw all of the people all of the time. We're there. All we lack is a major precipitant – our Tunisian fruit seller. When it happens the revolution will be deep and lasting.

  Robert David Steele

  Agency, People, Corporations

  "The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy". Interview with Nafeez Ahmed, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2014.

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• Tragedies happen, accidents happen.

  Sarah Hanson-Young

  Tragedy, Accidents Happen, Accidents

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• When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

  Eli Roth

  Body, Legs, Bleeding

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