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• Why should anything happen when everything has happened?

  Julian Barnes

  Should, Happened, Happens

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• I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

  Rob Reiner

  Real, Writing, Way

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• You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.

  Lori Greiner

  Mind, Happens, Ifs

  Lori Greiner (2014). “Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality”, p.258, Ballantine Books

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• I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path.

  Isabel Lucas

  Believe, People, Path

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• At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way.

  Isaac Hayes

  The End Of The Day, Looks, Way

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• To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Saint, World

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Law, Secret, Shadow

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• An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it

  Matthew Barney

  Art, New York, Interesting

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• Things don't just happen; things happen just.

  Jim Rohn

  Happens

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• Something happens because something happens because something happens

  Jan Gehl

  Happens

  Jan Gehl (2011). “Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space”, p.75, Island Press

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• Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

  David Shields

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Stories, Want

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

  Alyssa Milano

  Beautiful, Baseball, Thinking

  "Alyssa Milano debuts clothing line". Interview with Mark Newman, April 12, 2007.

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• For me, the worst set is always when something happens to your equipment. Or back in the days your records wouldn't arrive and you couldn't perform in front of people. The best for me was performing for the Love Parade. That was kind of a blessing. I was never respected as an electronic artist. I was very big as a hip-hop DJ in my home town and in Germany. And then becoming an electronic artist, it was very hard for me to fight my way up. It still is, to be honest. I can still watch the Love Parade on YouTube, and I still put my hand over my head.

  Loco Dice

  Home, Fighting, Artist

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• Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There's darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it. They're not being given some candy-coated, 'Oh, this is a world where there are no stakes.' I think that actually insults their intelligence.

  America Ferrera

  Real, Kids, Dark

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• One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Writing, Two

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• Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

  Heraclitus

  Men, People, Wake Up

  "Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments".

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• What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

  Jennifer McMahon

  What If, Magic, Special

  Jennifer McMahon (2011). “Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

  Damon Galgut

  Memories, Return, Happens

  "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.

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• We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.

  Gene Weingarten

  Believe, People, Monsters

  Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

  Thomas Keller

  Careers, Made, Happens

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• I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

  Rita Wilson

  Singing, Wanted, Know How

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

  Martin Landau

  Regret, Looks, Stuff

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• Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Blessed, Would Be, Doing Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I say 'The Hunger For More', it could be referring to more success. It could be more money, or respect, more power, more understanding. All of those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person.

  Lloyd Banks

  God, Understanding, Progress

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

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• I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. So you asked, ‘When things get really, really difficult in your life, what keeps you going?’ For me, it’s always that the most difficult moments in my life, the moments in which I believe I’ve completely failed or hit bottom, I can actually directly link them to something later that is either a true success or a dream come true. So, I do believe that if you can maintain that everything happens for a reason, you can find the strength and the lesson in those difficult moments and grow stronger.

  Troian Bellisario

  Dream, Believe, Everything Happens For A Reason

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