Happenings Quotes - Page 5

• Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope...now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into the visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.

  Dziga Vertov

  Taken, Eye, People

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• Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Mind, Suffering, Letters

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• The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

  S. N. Goenka

  Mind, Aversion, Vipassana

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• The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

  Aaron Allston

  Differences, Tragedy, Awful

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• Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Events, Mental Health, Said

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

  Peter Arnett

  Baghdad, Apologizing, Reports

  "Just fired, Peter Arnett hired by British paper". Interview with Piers Morgan, edition.cnn.com. April 1, 2003.

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• We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

  Larry Kramer

  Country, Crazy, War

  The Normal Heart act 2, sc. 11 (1985)

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• It’s so wonderful being a gay person. I said that before. I’m going to say it again. I love being gay. And I love gay people. I think we’re better than other people. I really do. I think we’re smarter and more talented and more aware and I do, I do, I totally do. And I think we’re more tuned in to what’s happening, tuned into the moment, tuned into our emotions, and other people’s emotions, and we’re better friends. I really do think all of these things. And I try not to forget them.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Love Is, Thinking

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• I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and strip it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Beautiful, Blessed, Eye

  "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.

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• We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous - and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what’s happening.

  Dan Gillmor

  Moving, Government, Media

  "Dan Gillmor: 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly". www.niemanlab.org. December 20, 2011.

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• Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?

  Bob Seger

  Sex, Remember, Wonderful

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• I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Thinking, Missing, Never Quit

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• It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• You want appreciation. Even though you like what's happening now doesn't mean that you still don't want appreciation or greater stimulation. It just means you're not using something in your now as your excuse to not let in all those things that you've been wanting. The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am, and eagerness for more.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Mean, Perfect

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• Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.

  Alan Cinis

  Weed, Marijuana, Smoking

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• If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is relevant. If you are miserable, somebody can ask why you are miserable, and the question is relevant - because misery is against nature, something wrong is happening. When you are happy, nobody asks you why you are happy, except for a few neurotics. There are such people; I cannot deny the possibility.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, People, Misery

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• At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it often work so well? As the authors show, apparently messy systems - such as untidy desks - actually exhibit a high degree of order: the piles of paper are close to hand, and the most important documents tend to make their way to the top while un-needed ones sink to the bottom. If the mess works, why mess with it?

  Nicholas Blincoe

  Book, Heart, Our World

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• Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

  Molly Ivins

  Perfectly Good, Upset, Touching

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.72, Vintage

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• You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

  Moonlight Graham

  Field Of Dreams, Realizing, Moments

  "Fictional character: Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham". "Field of Dreams", 1989.

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• Whatever is going to happen is already happening.

  Ted Berrigan

  Happens

  Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan (2005). “The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan”, p.55, Univ of California Press

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• I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

  Davy Jones

  Years, Giving, Fans

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• If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data.  If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven’t got a heart.

  Paul Hawken

  Heart, Optimistic, Data

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.12, Penguin

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• Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Passivity Is, Evil, Bully

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• People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening. I don't see a problem necessarily, but at the same time it is nice to see new things come.

  Hideo Kojima

  Nice, Long, People

  "Hideo Kojima: gamers are happy with what they have" by Wesley Yin-Poole, www.eurogamer.net. January 4, 2012.

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• At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Song, Commercial Music, Rights

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