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

  Teri McKeever

  Struggle, Setback, Stuff

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• Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Goes On, Things Change, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Stuff, Ridiculous, Happens

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

  Max McKeown

  Together, Really Cool, Makers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Stuff happens when you are a kid, it scars you inside for life.

  Corey Haim

  Kids, Scar, Stuff

  "In His Own Words: Corey Haim Called Himself a 'Chronic Relapser'" by Blane Bachelor and Oliver Jones, people.com. March 11, 2010.

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• Obscurity is where God sends all His favorite sons and daughters. Our society tells us that if and when we get ‘there’—the job or position or degree we’ve always wanted, the notoriety we’ve always dreamed of—that’s when all the important stuff will start happening. Not so. All the good stuff happens in obscurity.

  Jonathan Martin

  Daughter, Jobs, Son

  Jonathan Martin, Steven Furtick (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.65, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Reality, Differences, Knowing

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

  Dana Fox

  Cutting, Years, Stuff

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• I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  People, World, Screw You

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• I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

  Shane Warne

  Play, People, Looks

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