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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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• Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

  Morgan Freeman

  Struggle, Years, Promise

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• Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Thinking, Should Have

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• What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Rights, Iraq, Records

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• I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Clark Gable

  Ohio, Lucky, Right Time

  "The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds". Book by James Robert Parish, p. 67, 2004.

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• We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  War, Condolences, America

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• Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Adventure, Dust, Shadow

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• I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Class, People, Rooms

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• For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Germany, Able, Realizing

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• If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Zero, Two, People

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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• We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

  Graham Nash

  Anniversary, Song, Emotional

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• What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Past, Champion

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• It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

  Liam Neeson

  Littles, Tiny, Grew Up

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• The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

  Howard Nemerov

  Nice, Two, Giving

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• For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

  Stevie Nicks

  Friendship, Song, Night

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• Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Girl, Mother, Baby

  "Brigitte Nielsen" by Nick McGrath, July 29, 2011.

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• If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.

  Grover Norquist

  Country, Party, People

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• When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Yesterday, Political, Demise

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• The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

  Michelle Obama

  Fun, Thinking, Everyday

  "Michelle Obama: Obesity Campaign about Balance". The Associated Press, www.cbsnews.com. February 08, 2011.

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• Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Home, Childhood

  "Slam dunk - interview with basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon". Interview with Spike Lee, February 1994.

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• There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

  Gary Oldman

  Years, Spy, Osama Bin Laden

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• It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Black, Might

  "Yoko Ono: What I've Learned" by Tom Jundo, www.esquire.com. December 8, 2010.

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• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Planets, Feels

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Home, Past

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