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“I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.”

Trying Ideas Ends Happenings Leaving Me Me Alone Leave Me Alone Just Leave Me Alone

“People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.”

People Meditation Wonderful Buddhism Happenings Things Happen Wonderful Things Wonderful Things Happening

“Just as I defend myself, therefore, From all unpleasant happenings however small, Likewise, I shall act for others' sake To guard and to protect them with compassion.”

Compassion Protect Happenings Sake

Author:Shantideva

“A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.”

Ifs Soul Use Faces Universe Growth Views Willing Happenings Optimism Encouragement Adversity Point Of View Optimistic Fabric Woven

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.”

Source: Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask

“In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.”

Stills States Dream Seems Eye Sleep Happenings Reflection Awake Exception Our Dreams Disturbing

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!”

Children Known Television Internet Happenings Hot Traditional Making Love

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.”

People Beats Happenings Lots Of Money Good And Bad

Author:Gucci Mane

“We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.”

Knows Doe Sometimes Seems Plans Happened Happenings Okay Remarkable

Author:Andie MacDowell

“Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.”

World Years Film Growth Involved Ten Training Happenings Reflection Years Ago Immense Documentaries Minerals Mining

Author:Ann Macbeth

“The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.”

People Light Happens Opportunity Greater Drama Happenings Cameras Productions Studios Setting Settings

Author:Ann Macbeth

“My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.”

Goal Involved Happenings

Author:Barry Manilow

“But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.”

Thinking World Way Feels Whole Changed Happenings Whole World

Author:Barry McGuire

“I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.”

Thinking Girl Water Kissing Happenings My Friends Caught Cheating Throwing Balloons Cheating On Me

Author:Breckin Meyer

“I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.”

Feels Kind Done Actors Acting Stage Happenings Dear Eight Glad Islands Riding Hanging On Cyclones Dear Life Coney Island

Author:Fred Melamed

“I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.”

Want Feels Trying Heart Grows Growing Up My Heart Happenings Feel Good I Feel Good

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity.”

Way Looks Different Bigs Opportunity Environment Huge Internet Smart Happenings Phones Mobile

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.”

World Way Bigs Fun Happenings Teenager Listening To Music

Author:John Hodgman

“If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.”

Ifs Children Stories Imagine Written Happenings

Author:Paolo Maldini

“In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.”

Home Artist Taken Activity Achievement Happenings Myth Melodrama

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It’s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.”

Thinking Knows World Feels Feelings Wish Love You Happenings Awe Edited

Author:Dennis Cooper

“I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.”

People Men Needs Use Today America Numbers Stage Fields Depends Happenings Forests Rational Reasonable Grain Continents Irrational Finite Plague Attacking North America Massacres Pests

Author:Edward Abbey

“What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity.”

Happenings Absolutes Nigeria Atrocities

Author:Masai Ujiri

“NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening”

Causes Space Happenings Bunch Operations Instruction Filling Absolutely Nothing Processors

Author:Charles Petzold

“I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.”

Way Needs Feels Doe Happens Lasts Dies Fighting Industry Musician Happenings Mainstream Spotify

Author:Thom Yorke

“Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.”

Violence Happened Happenings

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.”

Ifs World Trying Eye Political Responsibility Moral Willing Happenings Injustice Political Life Moral Life

Author:Bill Ayers

“It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening.”

Needs Duty Happenings

Author:Charlie Melancon

“I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.”

Moments Reality Care Challenges Records Happenings Essence Cameras Take Care Video Celebrate Video Cameras

Author:Jonas Mekas

“I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.”

Want Needs Happens Remember Accepting Happenings Who You Are Despite Bad Things I Want You Remember Who You Are

Book:Hopeless

Source: Hopeless

“Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.”

Mind Ideas Happens Past Happened Subjects Happenings Distracted

Book:Turning the Mind Into an Ally

Source: Turning the Mind Into an Ally

“Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.”

“I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.”

People World Long Ideas Ends Shows America Artist Challenges Opinion One Day Long Time Happenings Devil Down And Blue Blame Dare Video Bother End Of The World Hollow Controversial Atrocities

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.”

Knows Years Made Happens Running Five Stage Fronts Happenings Rivers Dry Five Years Sweat Pouring Microphones

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.”

Remember Left Terrible Happenings Claims Vietnam

Author:James Donald

“There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.”

Moments Bigs Young Talent Building Happenings Boxing Buzz Building Up Young Talent

Author:Billy Joe Saunders

“All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.”

Ifs Levels Happenings Credit Bubbles Back Again

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.”

May Our Lives Happenings Structure Complexes Patterns Attraction Cosmic

Author:Amalia Kahana-Carmon

“I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.”

Happenings Impression

Author:Nadine Labaki

“If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.”

Ifs Community Views Serious Authority Behavior Happenings Ordinary Scientist Fundamentals Disturbing Baltimore

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

“I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.”

People Strong Style Happenings Fashionable Strong Mind Strong Minded

Author:Bonnie Wright

“Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.”

Needs Bigs Natural Generations Happenings Harder Gas Bus Vehicle Coal Infrastructure Facility Transportation Cab Natural Gas Trucking

Author:John S. Watson

“At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.”

Ifs Important Numbers Sun Special Happenings

Author:Frank James

“When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: who is doing it? Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.”

People Ifs World Real Asks Break Minutes Happenings Nuclear Trends Fewer Break Out Demographics Fads Living Alone Nuclear Families

Author:Peter York

“I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.”

Said Different Use Race Happenings Drivers Vehicle Cabinets

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.”

Ifs Writing Looks Different Stories Together Happenings Everyday Different Things

Author:Desmond Dekker

“In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.”

Ifs Years Looks Doe Stills War Speak Steps Issues Generations Happenings Despite Remarkable Massive Genocide Plates Inability Step Up Analyzing Darfur

Author:Stephen Daldry

“In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.”

Should Mind Important Ends Decision Creativity Technology Policy Happenings Privacy Discouraged Files Copyright Making Decisions Collision Be Encouraged

Author:Edward Felten

“The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.”

Years Has Beens Night Vision Four Happenings Four Years Every Night Festivals

Author:Joseph Jarman

“If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it safe? That will tell you an enormous amount about the security situation.”

Ifs Want Situation Security Amount Safe Happenings Towns Enormous Afghanistan

Author:Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

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