“War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.” PeopleWarFormPoorRichGroupsHappeningsCapitalismResourcesEssence Author:Bell Hooks
“I think we are becoming more and more linked, and before long, we'll all be one culture. It's happening in every field, not just fashion. Actually, I think the only hope for peace is if culture is homogenized. Unfortunately, money seems to be the only solution to political disagreements. If we are all linked through culture and trade, it won't be worth fighting each other.” IfsThinkingLongSeemsPoliticalCultureFightingFashionFieldsBecomingSolutionsHappeningsTradeLinkedDisagreementBecoming MoreFighting Each Other Author:Tom Ford
“There are so many things happening nowadays that you've seen in films from years ago, like cloning and all of those things are actually happening now, so we can kind of visualize it a lot more, and I think our generation particularly know that we're going to be a big part of that, we we're kind of fascinated with how human beings will fare in the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldYearsHumansKindBigsFilmHuman BeingsGenerationsHappeningsYears AgoThings HappenFascinatedOur GenerationCloning Author:Kaya Scodelario
“A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.” PeopleIfsLooksMeanPersonsRealDreamRunningNextDarkLevelsAudienceHappeningsAdvantageTerrorScaryAtmosphereVisualsNightmareFinding YourselfPanicGood Movie Author:Stephen King
“I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20.” ThinkingWorldTodayTerribleHappeningsLifetimeOptimisticAwfulGrandchildrenPresent TimeChange For The BetterMy Grandchildren Author:Isabel Allende
“Just keep acting is my plan, I just want to keep going for as long as I can. I've had a fantastic time on Potter, I will be very sad to leave it because every time I look back on one of these films, every scene I watch will be forever linked to a memory of what happened that day or something that was happening around that time in my life.” WantLooksLongI CanFilmMemoriesActingWatchesForeverPlansHappenedSceneHappeningsFantasticKeep GoingLinkedPottersVery Sad Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.” IfsWayWritingYearsTwoEndsCoursesProcessInterestingHalfHappeningsTwo YearsWriting Process Author:Tom Perrotta
“When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not.” ThinkingFeelsI CanDifferentSeemsHappeningsInstinctGutsScentDifferent PlaceWhim Author:Emma Stone
“Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play because stuff will happen, right then and there. The audience wants to believe that what's going on is happening for the first time, ever. That's what acting is. That's what good scene writing is.” WantWritingFirstsBelievePlayHappensActorsStuffActingAudienceDoorsSceneDirectorsHappeningsFirst TimePlaygroundsGood Directors Author:Martin Landau
“The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are you going to root for a protagonist who spends all his time trying to stop the reason you came to the movie from happening? It's always a dance” TryingReasonDifficultHeroBalanceHappeningsRootsPropertyMonstersProtagonists Author:Joss Whedon
“I don't want to force somebody to talk about sensitive subjects if they're not into it, but at the very least, even if that's happening off camera, it's allowing everybody to be on the same level, and creates an atmosphere on set that engenders trust.” IfsWantForceLevelsSubjectsHappeningsCamerasAtmosphereSensitiveAllowing Author:Joe Swanberg
“I think it's so much fun to create a space. As the world has gotten more and more hectic - with these horrible catastrophes [happening] - people are going out less, ordering in, [having guests over]. People love to be in their homes.” PeopleThinkingWorldHomeFunSpaceHappeningsHorribleGuestsGoing OutCatastropheHectic Author:Aerin Lauder
“Be true to your heart, and if you're passionate about your dream, work towards it but don't allow your idea of how you think it should manifest prevent what's actually unfolding from happening.” IfsThinkingShouldHeartIdeasDreamHappeningsPassionateBeing TrueYour DreamsManifestUnfolding Author:Keke Palmer
“I have always been fiery; I go after things. But what I learned from my mother is to step back and actually experience things that are happening. So for me, it's about meditating. My Everest is to have that become a real part of my life.” RealMotherStepsHappeningsMeditatingFieryEverest Author:Kate Hudson
“It is important to note that everything in the business is converging with technology. The more you can understand how that convergence is happening, and the more you can steward that change into your organization, then the more you'll be sought after as that strategic partner.” ImportantTechnologyHappeningsOrganizationNotesPartnersStrategicStewardsConvergence Author:Stephen Gillett
“Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.” HomeHoursHappeningsPaidStartingDebtVarietyMechanismHouseholdMore MoneyTypicalEnteringEquityCopingReckoningCoping Mechanisms Author:Robert Reich
“We have a violence problem in America. And no one is having a debate about the violence problem. And I think this is a missed opportunity to have an honest and open conversation in this country about why these horrifying things are happening, not simply what they're using to carry this out, but why are people doing this to begin with?” PeopleThinkingCountryProblemAmericaOpportunityViolenceHonestConversationHappeningsDebateMissed Opportunity Author:Marco Rubio
“I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.” NeedsLittlesEndsSometimesFeelingsHappeningsAddDetailsSpontaneousNuanceBe Spontaneous Author:Thomas Lennon
“I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.” FeelsLooksI CanSceneHappeningsFunny Things Author:Thomas Lennon
“Nanotechnology is really interesting to me. Stuff to sort of make our world a better place, and a cleaner place, through science. And it also explains things that are happening. I've always been into it.” WorldStuffInterestingHappeningsOur WorldBetter PlaceReally InterestingCleanersNanotechnology Author:Jessica Alba
“To create the reality of space with this sense of suspension: nothing's happening, it's endless; we're traveling at 28,000 kilometers an hour but nothing's happening. Nothing! And you have to do that! There are all these rules you have to follow, I've never known anything like it.” RealityHoursSpaceKnownHappeningsEndlessSuspension Author:Danny Boyle
“I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesStepsBuildingMinesHappeningsMetaphorBrandsWowReally TrueBuilding A BusinessBuilding A Brand Author:Karen Walker
“I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsEarthSocialProcessWaterJusticeAirEconomicMovementHappeningsSocial JusticeCommittedSavingGlobalizationVery PositiveEconomic JusticeWorld Bank Author:Assata Shakur
“A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.” WayCultureHappeningsContemporaryGrayIsolatedAmerican CultureCubaCounty Author:Assata Shakur
“You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!” WorldTodayModernHappeningsToesUp To Date Author:Jack LaLanne
“We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.” NeedsBelieveHumansMeanFallCultureI BelieveGrowsHuman BeingsRight NowHappenings Author:Myles Munroe
“I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.” TryingMomentsOpportunityHappeningsLifetimeGreat ThingsMomentumSeize The MomentOpportunities Of A Lifetime Author:Eric Thomas
“There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.” IfsTryingRealityFilmSoundActingAirStageFrontsGoes OnHappeningsTricksFishing Author:Anthony Hopkins
“That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized political character that was trying to do something important for his city. He meant well, but then you see that the human flaws had really derailed his past. It seems to be happening more and more in our country. I wanted to hold a mirror up to that.” TryingHumansWellsImportantCountryReasonCharacterStoriesSeemsWantedPastPoliticalCitiesSawsHappeningsMirrorsOur CountryReason WhyFlaws Author:Nicolas Cage
“I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.” WantMomentsEnjoyHappeningsGreat Things Author:Katherine Heigl
“You can always tell when an actor has grown a 'rhino skin' to protect themselves. It comes across on screen, and they aren't believable. They're dead in the eyes because they've been told a million times that they're the greatest actor that ever lived. If you don't realise what's happening, and get your feet back on the ground, it can be the worst thing that ever happens to you.” IfsHappensEyeActorsMillionsFeetWorstProtectHappeningsSkinsScreensRealisingWorst ThingsBelievableRhinos Author:Emma Stone
“There's a lot of money in selling marijuana. If you can do it legally, that's good. Why should all the criminals make the money? This is what people are thinking. If it's happening, if it's going to be legal, let's tax it and regulate it, like we do with everything else and make some money off this. I think that's one reason why people are talking this a little more seriously.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldLittlesReasonCan DoTalkingTaxesHappeningsCriminalsSellingReason WhyMarijuanaLots Of MoneyYou Can Do It Author:Willie Nelson
“The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.” WritingBookHappenings Author:Tony Burgess
“I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun, you are not reliant on imitating any other bands.” ThinkingFunBandHappeningsImitatingVery Inspiring Author:Kate Pierson
“I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do not. I mean, people are people. What is happening across the board is that the recognition that emotions, and the spirit and soul play a fundamental part in the art of healing.” PeopleThinkingMenWellsMeanArtIdeasSoulPlayFactsSpiritEmotionHealingWonderfulHappeningsFundamentalsMythRecognitionBoardsMean PeopleSpirit And Soul Author:Caroline Myss
“I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.” DifferentMightSeeingHappeningsPatternsThings HappenOutcomesDifferent Things Author:William J. Clinton
“I don't believe in God. I believe something is happening, I'm not sure what it is.” BelieveI BelieveHappeningsDon't BelieveNot SureBelieve In God Author:Sonny Barger
“My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for improvement. The reality is when people don't have someone to give them a sense of guidance, and say, "Hey, man, that's not happening," it's really hard.” PeopleThinkingMenGivingHardRealityMotherUnderstandingRoomsHappeningsImprovementHeyGuidanceAlways Room For ImprovementRoom For Improvement Author:Stevie Wonder
“The reason for backing tracks is to not veer off too far from the record and have what the fans actually want to hear. Artists use backing tracks just so they can stay close to the record and what the consumer heard for the first time. It's not to be confused with lip synching or anything like that cos that's not happening at all.” WantFirstsReasonUseArtistRecordsHeardFansHappeningsFirst TimeLipsTrackConsumersConfused Author:Chris Johnson
“I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up; it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.” ThinkingKnowsWritingCoursesHappeningsDuesSurfaceBubblesWornMysticalWorn Out Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.” NeedsBookSelfHappensCultureNextRichCrazyMediaFindingsPagesHappeningsReflectionCapacityVery GoodBoringVisualsInteriorsRestlessAntidoteSelf ReflectionMonologuesNarratorsSo Boring Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention; in other words, they're just life happening. That's what I think about: life, and telling a story.” PeopleThinkingStoriesHappensNumbersAttentionNovelIssuesHappeningsSufficientLife Happens Author:Anna Quindlen
“This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When you look at the theocracies all across the Middle East, where we look at constitutions that are based upon the Qur'an, I don't think you want to see that happening in the United States of America. So it is a theocratic political construct.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksStatesAmericaPoliticalLeftChurchInterestingUnitedUnited StatesOne ThingMiddleHappeningsConstitutionEastSeparationMiddle EastUnited States Of AmericaConstructsVery InterestingChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateTheocracy Author:Allen West
“I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.” MadeI CanStuffEnjoyFourCuttingImagineBrotherScenePagesHappeningsBallsGreenScreensTeethDialogueTennisGasTwinsAdaptationBecause I CanTennis BallsTwin Brother Author:Nicolas Cage
“I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone for what's happening in the industry. And I take that seriously.” WritingArtistSongResponsibilityRecordsIndustryHappeningsTone Author:Eric Church
“Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.” ThinkingBigsUniverseModernTheoryHappeningsStringsBubblesInflationBangsCollideMultiverseString TheoryFission Author:Michio Kaku
“Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.” LittlesCountryBitsDifferencesGoneChangedLittle BitHappeningsRadioUniformsConsolidation Author:Joan Jett
“There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.” FirstsHas BeensTwoLastsOpinionCreativityTechnologyEvolutionAmountEqualHappeningsMeetingsDecadesTwo ThingsRemarkableUnbelievableIntersectionsPioneering Author:Kevin Spacey
“You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.” PeopleFeelsShouldDoneStoriesTogetherGoalSilenceLaughterHappeningsStandingViewersApplauseTelling Your Story Author:Kevin Spacey
“From the driver's standpoint I had the same horrors, the same satisfactions, the same everything. The speed is relative. It's faster and things are happening quicker, but you have the equipment to handle it.” HorrorHappeningsSatisfactionSpeedHandleFasterDriversRelativeEquipmentStandpoint Author:Mario Andretti