Happenings Quotes - Page 31

• Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

  Mary Wigman

  Art, Communication, Men

  Mary Wigman, Virginia Stewart (1935). “Modern dance”

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• What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.

  William V. Shannon

  Important, Illusion

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• Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.

  Michael Nesmith

  Ebay, Looks, Internet

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Taken

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers as an exhibition opening, but the people who came didn't know that it was to be a sort of Happening. I don't think it is quite right that it has become so famous anyhow. It was just a lot of fun, and the word itself, Capitalist Realism, hit just right. But it wasn't such a big deal.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Fun, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly.

  Susan Jeffers

  Powerful, Attitude, Block

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• From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

  Evander Holyfield

  Attention, World, Boxers

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• It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

  Germaine Greer

  Believe, Long, Missing

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.16, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

  Mira Sorvino

  School, Play, People

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• Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

  Jay Chiat

  Mean, Talking, Visions Of The Future

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

  William Plomer

  Honesty, Appetite For Life, Effectiveness

  Robert Francis Kilvert, William Plomer (1969). “Kilvert's diary: selections from the diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, 1 January 1870-[13 March 1879]”, Jonathan Cape

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• The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

  Matthew Perry

  Goal, Laughing, Guy

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• I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Fun, Real, Thinking

  "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2013.

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• I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Children, Drama, Media

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

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• I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Sorry, Blessed, Optimistic

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• I remember having a feeling like, 'I can't believe this is happening!' Two years ago I was auditioning for The Disney Channel, and now Paul Rudd is saying, 'Hey man, congratulations on your Emmy nomination!

  Max Greenfield

  Congratulations, Believe, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

  Carla Bley

  Rocks, World, Worthwhile

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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, Events, Fields

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

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• I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

  Caroline Corr

  Band, Particular

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.

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• I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.

  Jack Abramoff

  Thinking, People, Deserve

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• When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

  Graham Coxon

  London, Stuff, Places To Go

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• I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Blood, People, Awkward

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

  Rosanne Cash

  Baby, Thinking, Years

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• I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

  Adam Driver

  Running, Writing, Branches

  "The GQA: Adam Driver". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.

  Jack Dorsey

  Cities, Giving, Flow

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