Happenings Quotes - Page 33

• The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Southern, Process, Surface

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• In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Passion, Buddhism, Army

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• I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hurt, Real, Writing

  "The Sandman. Issue #75: The Tempest". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

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• Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

  Tom Sizemore

  Believe, Actors, Firsts

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• Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

  Richard Trumka

  People, Pay, Corporations

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• There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

  John Thune

  Country, Children, Years

  "Senator John Thune Doesn't Plan to Run For President". www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2011.

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• In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

  Peter Thiel

  Growth, Stuff, Today

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• I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Kids, Different

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• I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.

  Jessie Ware

  Thinking, Appreciate, Want

  "Jessie Ware, Mercury Prize Nominee, Preps EP for U.S. Release" by Richard Smirke, www.billboard.com. December 08, 2012.

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• Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

  Venus Williams

  Moving, Knowing, Years

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• If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

  Sean Young

  Responsibility, People, Want

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

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• Just as I defend myself, therefore,
  From all unpleasant happenings however small,
  Likewise, I shall act for others' sake
  To guard and to protect them with compassion.

  Shantideva

  Compassion, Sake, Protect

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• A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Encouragement, Optimistic, Adversity

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• It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Being Thankful

  Cornelius Plantinga (2001). “Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask”, p.52, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

  Ann Macbeth

  Drama, Opportunity, Light

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• My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

  Barry Manilow

  Goal, Involved

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.

  Breckin Meyer

  Girl, Cheating, Kissing

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

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• I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

  Fred Melamed

  Eight, Islands, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.

  John Hodgman

  Fun, Teenager, World

  "John Hodgman's songs for Ragnarok, the end of days". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2012.

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• If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

  Paolo Maldini

  Children, Stories, Imagine

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• When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It’s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.

  Dennis Cooper

  Love You, Thinking, Feelings

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• I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Numbers, America

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Crooked Wood", p. 208), 1977.

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• Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Violence, Happened

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• You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.

  Bill Ayers

  Eye, Responsibility, Political

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