“I never thought of myself as being that good looking, I was an actor, people saw me on television, and then they start to think you're good looking because of that presentation. I was no better looking before the show, than after - and before the TV show I couldn't get a date to save my life. So what changed? Did I suddenly become more good looking? No. I got lucky, I got a TV show. That's what happened.” PeopleThinkingShowsActorsSawsHappenedChangedTelevisionTvsLuckyTv ShowsLooking GoodPresentation Author:Parker Stevenson
“LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.” PeopleWorldYearsMightFoundSoundInterestCitiesHappenedHavensThousandWesternBonesMessLos AngelesThousand YearsHeresyLiving OnWestern WorldCrumblingReinventing Author:Moby
“In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it, OK? And after we did it nothing really happened, but then 4-5 years later when there was a rap-rock emergence, we were already over it. We could have made Bring the Noise part 2, Bring the Noise part 3 - but like I said we're a METAL band, we didn't want to do that.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsLongMadeSaidRunningLostAudienceHappenedRocksReadyBandRapNoiseOver ItMetalsLong RunsEmergenceMetal Band Author:Charlie Benante
“I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.” PeopleMomentsStoriesHappensHappenedOrdinarySurpriseIntimateAggressionScandalOutrageousLots Of Friends Author:Claudia Rankine
“I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to try and drown myself in the bath. You have to do that. And the impulse is to rescue yourself and to spare the reader, but I can't rescue myself. And why should I spare the reader when nobody spared me? It's telling people what happened.” PeopleShouldTryingI CanRealDoneHappenedReaderPagesReal LifeImpulseRescueShould ISparesBaths Author:Damian Barr
“Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had it happened in the West Indies, as it has - you must remember that within fifty years of Columbus's arrival, only the bones remained of the people called the Arawaks, with one or two of them in Spain as specimens. Had the Holocaust committed under the Nazis happened somewhere else, we wouldn't be talking about it the way we talk about it.” PeopleWayYearsTwoAmericaRememberTalkingHappenedWestSouthCommittedBonesFiftyHolocaustNaziSpainSomewhere ElseCongoArrivalsColumbusSouth AmericaWest IndiesTahiti Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on...” PeopleThinkingLongChallengesHappenedLong TimeFairsHip HopHipsHopsRepresentationMtv Author:Mos Def
“I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really hope that people kinda go: "This happened once and I kind of like this song because I relate to it..." So if at least one of my songs over this tour's that song, then that's really cool.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindStoriesJobsSongHappenedSingersRelateSongwritersReally CoolSinger Songwriters Author:Gabrielle Aplin
“Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought about cocaine. Because I would accept when I would say, "What happened to that person?" and someone would say, "They started using cocaine...they went downhill..." I would just accept that, even though I had a different experience and all these other people had a different experience. But I would throw that out because I thought my experience was an aberration.” PeoplePersonsDifferentUseAcceptingHappenedSpecialDrugLet MeDataCocaineAberrationDifferent ExperiencesDrug Use Author:Carl Hart
“I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are.” PeopleWayYearsPersonsI CanEndsBodyWantedExistenceHappenedMembersYears AgoFellowsRevengeUnhappyOur FamilyThirtyCyclesUnhappinessClimbingRejoiceUnfortunateSiblingBecause I CanThirty YearsFamily MembersTaking Revenge Author:Marco Roth
“Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The way these stories are told and what we take away from them can change, and do in certain contexts, but overall I am not sure whether Jews want to let go of the narrative of the victim.” PeopleWayWantStoriesRememberCertainHappenedLetting GoVictimJewTraumaNarrativeNot SureHoliday Author:Jill Soloway
“It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The New York Times become vetted, conditioned, harassed, and shaped by the institution. That never happened to me.” PeopleImportantHappenedNew YorkDirectInstitutionsDistinctionReportersRoutesNew York Times Author:Chris Hedges
“I would never ever, ever, ever, ever do it again [All My Children]. It was the scariest thing I've ever done. I have such respect for people who do it, who can do it. What happened was they caught me at a good moment. I could use the money and this came along and it was with Susan and I thought, "Susan Lucci. I have to do this.” PeopleChildrenDoneMomentsUseCan DoHappenedCaughtMy ChildrenGood Moments Author:Richard Masur
“In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesEnoughLawHappenedStudentsSucceedAchievementStandardsToughTestsDrivenIdeologyGapsOld PeopleFrameworkAchievement Gap Author:Diane Ravitch
“I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting.” PeopleIfsLittlesHappenedLike YouThousandThings HappenShootingLittle ThingsPlatformsLensesSubway Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people gather to exchange political and cultural ideas. And so that's possibly a factor into why they went after these institutions, although there's been no public comment from the government on why these raids happened.” PeopleHeartIdeasGovernmentYoungPoliticalHappenedInstitutionsFactorsCommentSquaresDowntownCairoTahrir Square Author:Leila Fadel
“The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so what's happened is that the identity of a Muslim woman especially is being equated to this piece of cloth on her head. And in that ideology there's a very fundamental assumption that people need to think very deeply about, which is do you believe that a woman is too sexy for her hair?” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveMeanShowsPiecesHappenedIdentityHairFundamentalsSexyEightIdeologyAssumptionVariationQuranVery DeepMuslim WomenHijab Author:Asra Nomani
“What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.” PeopleThinkingMenWayDifferentRealFeltHappenedChangedHe ManArmsGayDiseaseShotsLonelyDiedAidsAtmosphereDesperateDepressingHomophobiaPassed AwayPublic Image Author:Margaret Cho
“For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change].” PeopleWorldWayLongWarRolesHappenedLong TimeFemaleIncrediblesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiFactoriesWorld War IFabulousFemale RolesWomen's Roles Author:Geena Davis
“But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not a historic event of that kind. For many people it hasn't happened yet. Others - to recur to an earlier question - are still in the phase of intense shock.” PeopleKindStillsHappenedEventsBattleIntenseShockPhasesHistoricWaterloo Author:George Pattison
“But to your point - you also raise a point, too, that it's not that, like, a bromance is necessarily a new thing. It's happened a lot in sort of big budget comedies in the past decade or so. But people have pointed out to us that we're doing a bromance, so to speak, but doing it in a different way that's even more authentic and real and sincere.” PeopleWayDifferentRealBigsPastSpeakComedyHappenedRaisesDecadesBudgetsDifferent WaysSincereNew ThingsBromance Author:Steve Zissis
“I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we go, let's deal with this" because we're not dealing with it. I'm waiting for somebody to write another book but it hasn't happened yet, though I guess mine's only been out for a year and a half.” PeopleNeedsFeelsWritingYearsBookWaitingDealsHalfHappenedDoorsMinesDealing With It Author:Brad Warner
“If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.” PeopleIfsMovingDealsHappenedOld PeopleOhio Author:Celeste Ng
“Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]...." That's happening less and less now, but all it takes is one of those when you're nine, ten, eleven, twelve - and it's hard to describe to people who aren't, because of course if you're not gay, an eleven- or twelve-year-old wouldn't even remember that that happened.” PeopleIfsYearsHardMightRememberCoursesRealizingChurchSinHappenedPrayingGayTenHappeningsNineTwelveEleven Author:Stephen Karam
“I never wanted it to get to this point. I had hoped that, by its own course, by the way the media covers politics, people would open their eyes and see who Donald Trump really is. But that, unfortunately, has not happened. The polls in the early states indicate that he's been able to fool a significant number of people into believing that he is something that he is not.” PeopleWayBelieveStatesEyeAbleWantedCoursesNumbersHappenedMediaFoolTrumpSignificantPollsSignificant Numbers Author:Marco Rubio
“I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.” PeopleSpiritualFormCasesTeacherHappenedExampleEgoSpiritual Teachers Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I find it very difficult to do anything on my own now because people recognize me. This has never happened to me before because I haven't really done television before. But I suppose if you're in people's rooms all the time, I don't know - I was thinking the other night with people like DiCaprio and, you know, those big stars and Cate Blanchett, and you just think how did they exist? It's so difficult. And I think now it's very intrusive because of these cellphones, you know, with cameras.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsDoneBigsNightStarsDifficultMy OwnRoomsHappenedHavensTelevisionCamerasCellphone Author:Maggie Smith
“I am responsible for what happened to me but if I was to stay there it is kind of a constant reminder and it is very easy.... You know the new song is called Mental.... I am not trying to hide from people that I have OCD, and I don't think that I am a completely normal person.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingKindPersonsSongEasyHappenedNormalResponsibleConstantRemindersOcdNew Songs Author:Shane Bunting
“Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.” PeopleKindInterestPathHappenedRapNeighborhood Author:Ice Cube
“I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that followed, when none of us spoke about anything else really, a number of friends of mine, people I knew, including very experienced journalists, I heard them saying things like, well, now we understand what happened to you.” PeopleKnowsWellsRememberNumbersHappenedHeardWeekNew YorkMinesIncludingJournalistSpokesRemember YouRemembers You Author:Salman Rushdie
“If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.” PeopleIfsMenWritingFirstsBigsVoiceWhiteInterestingHappenedAccountsHistoricalEstablishmentNonfictionWhite ManReally InterestingUmbrella Author:Isabel Allende
“Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.” PeopleMenMindHeartHappensLawCoursesHouseBlackHappenedPerspectiveBattleHistorian Author:Isabel Allende
“I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for.” PeopleKnowsYearsLittlesCountryDreamAbleNamesChurchCitiesHappenedFrontsTenGlassesCardsTeaSundayPorchParishBirthday CardFront PorchesIced Tea Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to tell their story about the revolution through the eyes of musicians, in fact. The '59 Revolution. And what has happened to them since. It's very much a Cuban story. They haven't fared too well.” PeopleWantWellsLittlesIdeasFactsStoriesEyeNiceHappenedHavensRevolutionMetsMusicianSeventiesCubanThrough The Eyes Author:John Gimlette
“I would say that not many German people are still alive, who experienced what happened during the third reich. We don't have to go to the Stasi, we can go to the Gestapo, and see what happens, when your human rights, your ability to a freedom of expression and a freedom of thought is infringed upon. This is terribly, terribly dangerous territory.” PeopleHumansStillsHappensAbilityAliveRightsHappenedDangerousExpressionThirdsHuman RightsTerritoryFreedom Of ThoughtFreedom Of ExpressionGestapo Author:Ray McGovern
“So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course, is now that we've had well over 100 years of this history to establish separate cultures, different ways of worshipping, and different ways of understanding theology so that when people try to come together makes it very difficult. And then, of course, social networks, you know, how do we find a place to worship?” PeopleKnowsWayTryingYearsWellsDifferentWarTogetherCultureCoursesSocialDifficultUnderstandingKnow HowHappenedWorshipTheologyDifferent WaysCivil WarSocial NetworkCongregationDenominationsWar Time Author:Michael Emerson
“I talk to people who go to rehab, and they get this AA book that they've got to read everyday - really thick book. They go through all these 12 steps and do all this and that. It's crazy how everybody can sit and talk about rehab but if I come to say Christ was my rehab, it's not cool to say that. ... For me that's my rehab. That's what happened with me and it's an amazing and powerful thing.” PeopleIfsBookChristPowerfulStepsHappenedCrazyEverydayThickRehab12 Step Author:Reginald Arvizu
“I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.” PeopleKnowsGuyEnjoyHurtSimpleLaughingHappenedHonestCryPleaseBeing HonestImpressedExpress YourselfSimple Guy Author:Tommy Wiseau
“I have kissed all the girls I worked with! I'm just a very affectionate person, I love to hug and kiss people I care about. It was taken the wrong way in tabloids, and people insinuated all kinds of things. I called her to tell her what happened, but unfortunately, this was one of the things that stopped our relationship.” PeopleWayKindPersonsCareGirlTakenHappenedKissingAll KindsHugOur RelationshipI CareWrong WayTabloidsAffectionate Author:Maureen McCormick
“There are some people who believe that dreams really are just kind of a throwaway thing. They are just a way of your brain processing what's happening during the day, but there's really no meaning to them; a lot of imagery of just flashes of what happened.” PeopleWayBelieveKindDreamBrainHappenedHappeningsFlashImageryProcessing Author:Shelby Harris
“Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions of people, but I can design the music so that it's exactly right for you and only you at this particular moment for your particular experience, things that have happened to you over 20 years, to you're particular mental state right now.” PeopleYearsI CanStatesMomentsCommonMillionsPiecesHappenedDesignParticularRight NowAppeals Author:Tod Machover
“The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.” PeopleMayAbleYoungArtistCitiesImpossibleHappenedWorstSpecialNew YorkBecomingDoctorsCrisisNew York CityWorst ThingsHousingYoung ArtistsHousing Crisis Author:Juan Enriquez
“So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.” PeopleThinkingWellsHappensRememberReadingWrittenHappenedPeriods Author:Paul McCartney
“There are people who will be wanting to apply "Win" to their own, personal life. If you remember only one thing, and I'm going to do it right here, right now because I just happened to come to it, that phrase - if you remember only one thing - there are 125 specific language recommendations in "Win" that can make a difference in your day-to-day lives.” PeopleIfsRememberWinningLanguageDifferencesHappenedOne ThingRight NowPhrasesMaking A DifferenceDay To DayPersonal LifeRecommendationsDay LifeDay To Day Life Author:Frank Luntz
“I think mentoring is essential in life, both being a mentor to someone and being mentored, and I think that when you are mentored it inspires a generosity in you to mentor others and that I know is what happened with me, so for instance, the people that come through my studio to work for me, it's not good enough for me to just give them a paycheck.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingEnoughHappenedInspireEssentialsStudiosInstanceGenerosityGood EnoughMentorBeing MeNot Good EnoughMentoringPaychecks Author:Carol Friedman
“So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts for what happened. Often, the real explanation for what happened is much more subtle and interesting and involves maybe small shocks or what a couple people did on a Wednesday morning that changed the arc of history.” PeopleRealInterestingMorningHappenedChangedCoupleTerribleAccountsExplanationShockSubtleArcsWednesdayWednesday Morning Author:Cass Sunstein
“What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayHappenedModernMovedWesternEducatedPlatoWestern World Author:John Shelby Spong
“There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would become more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, that eventually the few would be killed by the many who were deprived, and that a different kind of government would then develop. What happened in Western democracy is that we began to understand that a democratic system can't work if half of the people are starving and the other half are dieting.” PeopleIfsKindDifferentEndsHandsGovernmentWould BeWealthInterestingHalfDemocracyHappenedDemocraticWesternDifferent KindsDeprivedStarvingInteresting ThingsOther HalfDieting Author:John Shelby Spong
“People ask, why hasn't that person busted out? Almost always, at the end of it, consciously or subconsciously, it hasn't happened because that person has chosen for it to not happen. Either walking away, because it wasn't the life they wanted, or through self-sabotaging.” PeoplePersonsEndsSelfHappensWantedAsksHappenedWalkingChosenWalking AwayBusted Author:Chris Gethard
“I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.” PeopleKindSawsHappenedTiedFluidity Author:Robert Barry