Stuff Happens Quotes

• The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.

  Carlos Condit

  Mma, Accepting, Can Do

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• Failure and setbacks and struggles are where all the good stuff happens.

  Teri McKeever

  Struggle, Setback, Stuff

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• Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Goes On, Things Change, Stuff

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• Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

  Leonard Susskind

  Remember, Surprise, Exception

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• Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Stupid, Iraq

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 12 Apr. 2003

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• We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Bigs, Ready, Big Stuff

  Kelly Corrigan (2014). “Lift: An inspirational letter of love from a mother to her children”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Real, Mean, Structure

  Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.20, Canongate Books

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• When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Sick, Age

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Religious, Years, Two

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 26, 2005.

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• That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

  Carol Kane

  People, Critical, Stuff

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• But sometimes stuff happens and we find ourselves lost, and suddenly we're standing in a place we don't recognize and can't remember walking-or falling-there, and we're unsure how to get back or if we even want to.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Fall, Want, Remember

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• But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.

  Nora Raleigh Baskin

  Kids, Plot, Ask Me

  Nora Raleigh Baskin (2010). “Anything But Typical”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it's actually how a lot of stuff happens.

  Tony Hsieh

  Years, Rewards, Sound

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• I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.

  Jud Wilhite

  Encouragement, Book, Passion

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• Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.

  Max McKeown

  Together, Really Cool, Makers

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• In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

  Jane Seymour

  Heart, Leaving, Rooms

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• Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Stuff, Ridiculous, Happens

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• Bad stuff happens.
  Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair.
  Sometimes, it just plain sucks.
  Bad stuff happens sometimes.
  Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

  James Patterson

  Beautiful, Ocean, Moving

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• When we got down there were some agent provocateurs, if you've never heard of them, these are people sent in intentionally into a group to create chaos and dissension ... There were two we identified down there that were trying to foment violence on either side, trying to really create a confrontation. Any time this stuff happens there's going to be agent provocateurs come in.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Two, People

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• I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

  Doug Ose

  Jobs, Wealth, Investment

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• If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

  Sarah Silverman

  Writing, Ideas, Comic

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• Mistakes happen. Not every one of my suspensions was purposeful or intentional. A lot of that stuff happens spur of the moment in the middle of a game. I think I can bring that to the table. Sometimes emotions get the best of you. Things happen.

  Chris Pronger

  Mistake, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I can't imagine trying to be in recovery. I mean it would be hard enough with just life going along in a nice way, but then when awful stuff happens, how you maintain the strength to get through it?

  Allison Janney

  Nice, Recovery, Mean

  "Interview: ‘Mom’ star Allison Janney talks multi-cam drama, comic grieving". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 2, 2015.

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• Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And then the tenth one is the more placid, character-based one.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Character, Hbo, Wind

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage.

  Kevin Shields

  Stupid, People, Important

  Source: pitchfork.com

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