Happenings Quotes - Page 7

• The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang - the process, event, or happening that brought the universe into existence - started off the universe in an extraordinarily special, highly ordered state of low entropy.

  Brian Greene

  Memories, Past, Special

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.175, Vintage

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• Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hate, Real, Somewhere Else

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• Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Four, Months

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• ...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Hype, White

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Moving, Jazz

  "Sonny Rollins: 'You Can't Think And Play At The Same Time'". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. May 3, 2014.

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• American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Children, Cancer, Heart

  Joel Fuhrman, M.D. (2010). “Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.

  Gary Lightbody

  Beautiful, Darkness, Inward

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• Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and their supporters in Mexico, Argentina, Eastern Europe, and the Arab world. Instead, those in jackboots and armbands worldwide quietly stowed all their emblems away as organized fascism died on the vine once the roots were torn out in Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo. So too will the terrorists, once their sanctuaries and capital shrivel up - as is happening as we speak.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Weed, Roots, Japan

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• Sin is like a cancer that destroys step by step, sometimes so slowly we don't realize what's happening to us.

  David Jeremiah

  Cancer, Steps, Sometimes

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• This is happening all over the world. It's not just this golf course. Hopefully, if it stays dry, it will let a few more people in (contention). If it gets wet, though, there's only a few people where it's attainable.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Golf, People, World

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• The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

  Alice Hoffman

  Kids, Adults, Knows

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• It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

  Jan Hammer

  Talking, Voice, America

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• Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing.  That's why we don't understand what's happening.

  Jacque Fresco

  Love Is, Fixed

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• No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.

  Freeman Dyson

  Memories, Information, Matter

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• You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

  Bernhard Langer

  Memories, Firsts, Knows

  Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

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• No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively. Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me. I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others. If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.

  Bill W.

  Teacher, Heart, Responsibility

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• And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

  George Takei

  Country, Order, Achievement

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

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• The world spins along outside, the sun
  rises and sets, the streets go dark, the lights come on. The future is happening, but it can wait until tomorrow. Neither of us knows what will come next, or where we go from here,
  or even what anyone will say about us, but none of it matters. We’ve got each other right now.

  Pete Wentz

  Dark, Light, Waiting

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Night, Differences

  "The making of Hillary Clinton: 15 moments that define her public life", usnews.nbcnews.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Mind, Suffering, Letters

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• The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

  S. N. Goenka

  Mind, Aversion, Vipassana

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• I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

  Peter Arnett

  Baghdad, Apologizing, Reports

  "Just fired, Peter Arnett hired by British paper". Interview with Piers Morgan, edition.cnn.com. April 1, 2003.

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• We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

  Larry Kramer

  Country, Crazy, War

  The Normal Heart act 2, sc. 11 (1985)

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• I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and strip it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Beautiful, Blessed, Eye

  "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.

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• We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous - and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what’s happening.

  Dan Gillmor

  Moving, Government, Media

  "Dan Gillmor: 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly". www.niemanlab.org. December 20, 2011.

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