Events Quotes - Page 18

• I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

  Tibor Fischer

  Half, Literature, Arguing

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• In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

  Alan Lightman

  Artist, Delight, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.29, Vintage

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• To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

  Carl Lewis

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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• I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.

  Werner Herzog

  Party, Red, Living My Life

  "Werner Herzog Talks Teaching Lock-Picking, Being A Living Legend And ‘Into The Abyss’". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. November 14, 2011.

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• People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Years, Weather, Voice

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.

  James Spader

  Hands, People, Way

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• My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  Sidney Altman

  Technology, Massachusetts, Unexpected

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• My memories of events and games are fragmented.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Memories, Games, Fragmented

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• We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Rooms, Tvs

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• The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

  Edward H. Levi

  Frustration, Intellectual, Causes

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.

  Mark Batterson

  Past, Thinking, Healthy

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• I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Fans, Down And, Able

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• I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!

  Kelly Brook

  Mean, Lovely, Promise

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.

  Kurt Busch

  Race, People, Excited

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• I love getting dressed up. Being a pop star is the most brilliant job for that. A lot of girls love shopping, but they might see the most amazing outfit and think, 'When am I going to wear that?', so it's my duty to exploit the fact I do have events I can wear these things to.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Girl, Jobs, Stars

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• I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

  Dan Chaon

  Grief, Loss, Years

  "Staying Awake with Dan Chaon". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Fields, Tvs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.

  Anderson Cooper

  Cnn, People, Covering

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

  Clayton Christensen

  Blessed, Vision, Important

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• I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

  Carol Alt

  Hockey, Player, Nhl

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.

  Dale Archer

  Forever, Brain, Emotion

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• Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

  Eric Alterman

  Military, Mistake, Iraq

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• I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!

  Stockard Channing

  Hate, Party, Dressing Up

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Movement, Bigs, Notion

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• Over the last decade, - economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

  Gavyn Davies

  Years, Two, Splits

  "The great economics rift reopens" by Gavyn Davies, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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