Everything Happens For A Reason Quotes - Page 5

• Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

  Paul Westerberg

  Light, Band, Done

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• What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Thinking, World, Today

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• So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

  Brian Mulroney

  California, Political, President

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• Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Movie, Kitchen, Meals

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• I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

  John Hurt

  Sorry, Wine, Mind

  Gurdian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

  Nia Long

  Children, Thinking, Upset

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

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• I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best

  Sean Lennon

  Trying, Way, Happens

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

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• You can't be everything to everyone

  Bill Cosby

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• The thing that amazes me about getting fired is that nobody ever has anything insightful to say about it. They always say the same thing. They always say, 'Everything happens for a reason.' As lame as that sounds, I guess it’s better to hear it out loud. Because when you hear it in your own head, it sounds like, 'Anything can happen with a razor.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Insightful, Sound, Lame

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• Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Tools, Way

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• What if we just acted like everything was easy?

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Attitude, Life Is Hard, What If

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• I genuinely believe that everything happens for a reason.

  Drake Doremus

  Believe, Things Happen, Reason

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

  Graham Nash

  Writing, Action, Absorbing

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• Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes, that might be difficult to understand, especially when things don't go the way we plan or expect. If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.

  Betsy Landin

  Purpose, Might, Way

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

  Dan Brown

  Ideas, Agency, Office

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• Everything happens for a reason. I believe in this at the highest level.

  Mpho Koaho

  Believe, Levels, Highest

  "Actor Mpho Koaho: The vulnerable nature of acting, investing in youth programs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.

  Elihu Root

  Sadness, Thoughtful, Men

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. 
  (in Thief of Time)

  Terry Pratchett

  Football, Thieves, England

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• Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

  Sue Grafton

  Mean, Reason, Happens

  Sue Grafton (2012). “Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels”, p.434, Pan Macmillan

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• I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

  Andrew Bird

  Believe, Views, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.

  Shawn Johnson

  Mom, Giving Up, Gymnastics

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• I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Thinking, Alternatives, Theory

  Lauren Barnholdt (2011). “Watch Me”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I really think everything happens for a reason.

  Lily Collins

  Thinking, Things Happen, Reason

  "Lily Collins opens up about Taylor Lautner: 'he's a great guy'". www.mtv.com. September 9, 2011.

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• Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

  Brandon Lee

  Life, Thinking, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think everything happens for a reason and all of my choices have led me up to my solo album and made me stronger, not only as an artist but as a person. I want to do more the Black Eyed Peas albums and more of my own albums. I'm in this for the long run.

  Fergie

  Running, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.billboard.com

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