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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.128, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, People, Dumb

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• What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

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• There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Wise, Niece

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913)

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• Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

  Nick Cave

  Australia Day, Australian, Precedence

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• In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Asking Why, People, Different

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• I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Keys

  "Former Vice President Dick Cheney on 'Hannity'". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11.

  Dick Cheney

  Fall, Taken, Reason

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

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• Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

  Cher

  Past, Years, Next Year

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• I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

  Julia Child

  Country, War, Thinking

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• Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

  John Ciardi

  Genius, Happens

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• In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

  Tom Clancy

  Photography, Looks, Unions

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

  Chuck Close

  Father, Important, Age

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• The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

  Harlan Coben

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?

  Tom Coburn

  Girl, School, Thinking

  "Coburn Warns of 'Lesbianism' in Schools". www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2004.

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• You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as "Words With Friends" and "Doom."

  Gail Collins

  Book, College, Games

  "Will Journalism Go the Way of Whaling?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 27, 2013.

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• You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Kids, Careers, Piano

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• I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

  Katie Couric

  Thinking, Winning, People

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• We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Responsibility, Animal

  "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

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• When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

  Simon Cowell

  Rights, Apples, Worry

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• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Life, Way

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.18.

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• Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Roles, Landing, Surprising

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• I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

  Louis C. K.

  Past, Thinking, People

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• It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

  Larry David

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• The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

  Bette Davis

  Baby, Art, Entertainment

  Quoted in Doug McClelland Star Speak (1987).

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