Stuff Happens Quotes

The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.

Carlos Condit

Mma, Accepting, Can Do

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Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.

Elizabeth Scott

Goes On, Things Change, Stuff

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Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

Donald Rumsfeld

Mistake, Stupid, Iraq

Quoted in N.Y. Times, 12 Apr. 2003

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Failure and setbacks and struggles are where all the good stuff happens.

Teri McKeever

Struggle, Setback, Stuff

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Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

Leonard Susskind

Remember, Surprise, Exception

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We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.

Kelly Corrigan

Bigs, Ready, Big Stuff

Kelly Corrigan (2014). “Lift: An inspirational letter of love from a mother to her children”, p.26, Hachette UK

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In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Scarlett Thomas

Real, Mean, Structure

Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.20, Canongate Books

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When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

Charlie Kaufman

People, Sick, Age

Source: www.indiewire.com

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I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

Seth MacFarlane

Religious, Years, Two

Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 26, 2005.

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Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.

Max McKeown

Together, Really Cool, Makers

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Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

Rebecca Lobo

Stuff, Ridiculous, Happens

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But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.

Nora Raleigh Baskin

Kids, Plot, Ask Me

Nora Raleigh Baskin (2010). “Anything But Typical”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it's actually how a lot of stuff happens.

Tony Hsieh

Years, Rewards, Sound

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In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

Jane Seymour

Heart, Leaving, Rooms

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That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Kane

People, Critical, Stuff

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I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.

Jud Wilhite

Encouragement, Book, Passion

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But sometimes stuff happens and we find ourselves lost, and suddenly we're standing in a place we don't recognize and can't remember walking-or falling-there, and we're unsure how to get back or if we even want to.

Jessica Sorensen

Fall, Want, Remember

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Bad stuff happens.
Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair.
Sometimes, it just plain sucks.
Bad stuff happens sometimes.
Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

James Patterson

Beautiful, Ocean, Moving

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When we got down there were some agent provocateurs, if you've never heard of them, these are people sent in intentionally into a group to create chaos and dissension ... There were two we identified down there that were trying to foment violence on either side, trying to really create a confrontation. Any time this stuff happens there's going to be agent provocateurs come in.

Matt Shea

Inspiring, Two, People

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I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

Alan Moore

Believe, Everyday, Stills

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You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.

Jay Maisel

Photography, Thinking, Shooting

Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.224, New Riders

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Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn) You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into animals, time travel, and wave your hand to make freaky stuff happen? (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Mean, Animal, Hands

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The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.

Ronald Graham

Rain, Math, Thinking

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I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?

Amanda Marshall

Interesting, Ask Me, Asks

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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music, so I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head - that's where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.

Alan Palomo

Fun, Memories, Psychedelic

Source: pitchfork.com

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