Happened Quotes - Page 17

• I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

  Samantha Morton

  Children, Moving, Childhood

  "The Unloved: An Interview with Samantha Morton". Birds Eye View Interview, www.birds-eye-view.co.uk. February 15, 2010.

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• The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Age, Youth, Young

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton"

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• My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Father, War

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• Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

  Haruki Murakami

  Successful, Careers, Novelists

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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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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• After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

  Leon Panetta

  War, Fall, Cutting

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• How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.

  Daniel Handler

  Heart, Mind, Alive

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• So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

  Brian Jacques

  Night, Long Ago, Wind

  Brian Jacques (2005). “Lord Brocktree: A Tale from Redwall”, p.9, Penguin

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• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hard Work, Sky, Age

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3688, Delphi Classics

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• What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

  Marguerite Duras

  Long Ago, Voice, Forever

  Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Oregon, Facts

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.51, Portobello Books

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