“Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to others. I have been off Twitter lately because I had this sudden sort of feeling of, this man is the president of this club and it's not a club that I want to be in. Sometimes I feel like, well, perhaps it's not right because as a political activist, this is where politics is happening right now. This is where the conversation is going on, but at the same time, I think there is something corrosive about it.” ThinkingMenWantFeelsWellsHas BeensSelfSometimesFeelingsAmericaPoliticalPresidentMastersTrumpRight NowConversationHappeningsClubsCrueltyMediumsActivist Author:Ben H. Winters
“I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.” ThinkingHappeningsDisconnectedApathetic Author:Morgan Spurlock
“I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening with its consequences, and constructing a rational analysis of it without being able to verbalize it adequately in anything like its full complexity.” ThinkingAbleTroubleEventsHappeningsConsequenceRationalAnalysisComplexityVisualizing Author:Noam Chomsky
“In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more advanced in some regions than others, like in Spain for example. Catelan was repressed under Franco. People spoke it, but not publicly. It's now the language of Catelonia. The Basque language is being revived, not just the language but the culture, the folk music and everything else. So you're getting more diverse societies, and it's happening in Britain as well.” PeopleWellsKindMovingCultureLanguageExampleHappeningsEuropeUnionsFolksReactionsBritainRegionsSpokesDiverseSpainEuropean UnionRepressedFolk MusicFrancoBasquesDiverse Society Author:Noam Chomsky
“Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.” ThinkingLanguageMajorsHappeningsElsewhereScottishWalesDialectWelshNational Language Author:Noam Chomsky
“There are by now declassified documents from the 1950s that tells you a lot about what's going on in Egypt and we should have known it then. It's about exactly what's happening, how we can disregard public opinion as long as the dictators we support are capable of suppressing their populations. So to hell with public opinion. That's all right there in the 1950's. That's not security. That's not security of the government. That's, if anything, security from its own population. And there's a lot of that.” IfsShouldLongGovernmentKnownOpinionSupportHellSecurityCapableHappeningsShould HavePopulationDictatorDocumentsEgyptPublic OpinionDisregardSuppressingShould Have Known Author:Noam Chomsky
“Let's take Southeast Asia. The last 20, 30 years has been what's called the "Asian Miracle" - fast economic growth, industrial society. It's happening all over, with one exception, which one? The Philippines is the one that can't grow, which the US has been running for 100 years. Is there a correlation? Have you read about it? It comes to mind, at least.” YearsMindHas BeensRunningLastsGrowsGrowthEconomicHappeningsMiracleExceptionAsiaAsianEconomic GrowthPhilippinesCorrelationSoutheast Asia Author:Noam Chomsky
“I would say, and as I have said before, the series [Narcos] does not demonstrate real happenings but rather events that the screenwriters, in their own taste, believe depict the way we lived.” WayBelieveDoeSaidRealEventsTasteHappeningsSeriesScreenwriters Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“Sure, at that age [of 7] you may have seen movies with guns and crime but by then I also knew something strange was happening in my family because it all changed drastically after the killing of Rodrigo Lara.” MayAgeCrimeChangedStrangeHappeningsGunMy FamilyKilling Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“In a way, my father [Pablo Escobar] reached a certain degree of sincerity that I became to know and I would even say appreciate because I would have rather had my father treat me like this rather than as an idiot that would never have any idea about what was happening around us.” KnowsWayIdeasCertainFatherDegreesHappeningsAppreciateTreatsIdiotSincerityPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I could see America playing a slightly smaller role in the Middle East but I would not see us abandoning the region and just say "Oh," like I said, "China, Russia, it's yours now. Global focus is just on our hemisphere." I don't see that happening.” SaidAmericaRolesFocusMiddleHappeningsChinaEastRussiaRegionsMiddle EastHemisphere Author:Thomas Friedman
“Given how we know Russia feels about the State Department, seeing what`s happening to the State Department under this current [Donald Trump] administration is worrying and raises all sorts of questions about the connections between this current administration and Russia.” KnowsFeelsStatesGivenWorrySeeingTrumpHappeningsConnectionsRaisesCurrentsRussiaAdministrationDepartment Author:Rachel Maddow
“What's happening in Russia of course is you have a country watching out for its national interest.” CountryCoursesInterestHappeningsRussiaNational Interests Author:Dana Rohrabacher
“The Mexican people, you cannot explain this wealth, this history, this joy, the capacity to celebrate amid these tragedies that you have asked about. I can say another thing, that this unity, that this people has managed not to fail, not to end with so many wars, things, things that are happening now.” PeopleI CanWarEndsJoyWealthFailingHappeningsCapacityTragedyUnityCelebrateMexican Author:Pope Francis
“If there is a Greek exit from the Eurozone, I think the German elite will be quite pleased that they can then use that to restructure the Eurozone and make it a zone where only strong countries are allowed in. There would then be two tiers within the European Union, which is in fact already happening. But you cannot simply get rid of German control by raising the specter of the Third Reich. That's ahistorical.” IfsThinkingTwoCountryFactsUseStrongHappeningsThirdsUnionsGreekZoneElitesExitEuropean UnionRestructureEurozone Author:Tariq Ali
“The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use). Now you talk to 15-year-old kids and their 9-year-old brother or sister is using stuff that they don't understand.” YearsRealUseKidsUsedStuffDifferencesTechnologyGenerationsBrotherHappeningsUsed To BeCompression Author:Paul Saffo
“Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did not turn their backs on it. It's an important part of their culture. So guitar music is an important part of their culture. So me being into rock music, I get respect working there, which wasn't happening in Europe or in the US.” ImportantTurnsCultureInterestingRocksMusic IsHappeningsEuropeGuitarAbandonRock And RollVery InterestingRock MusicArgentinaGuitar MusicRock And Roll Music Author:Gordon Raphael
“[The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.” ThinkingShouldEndsKidsHouseGrowsWhiteGrowing UpBabyHappeningsContactGradesWhite HouseInteractionStaffMaintainingDuplicate Author:Barack Obama
“If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected.” IfsYearsWellsLooksThreeHappenedMiddleWorstOfficeHappeningsCrisisFinancialThree YearsFranklinGreat DepressionFinancial CrisisFranklin Delano Roosevelt Author:Barack Obama
“Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century." This happened before the First World War and it wasn't just the soldiers. You can see it happening if you read the Bloomsbury biographies. It was a reaction to a great extent against Victorianism. There was so much that was repressive and stuffy. Victorian buildings were associated with it, and they were regarded as very ugly. Even when they weren't ugly, people made them ugly. They were painted hideously.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsMadeIdeasWarHappenedCenturyBuildingHappeningsSoldierUglyReactionsWar Of The WorldsBiographies20th CenturyModernismSuitableVictorianFirst World WarInfatuatedUgly People Author:Jane Jacobs
“I'll keep this as nonpartisan and diplomatic as possible - but for those of us whose heads are kind of spinning off and are really engaged in what's happening right now and trying to effect change where we can, when we can, I think we also need to express ourselves and express our anger and also find joy in things like The Golden Girls right now.” ThinkingNeedsTryingKindJoyGirlEffectsRight NowHappeningsGoldenEngagedSpinningDiplomaticGolden Girls Author:June Diane Raphael
“Unfortunately, this past birthday, my son was up the entire night before, very sick with that horrible - I think it was called the Norovirus or whatever the hell that was that was going around. So I got it. And then my husband [Paul Scheer] got it. We were both fighting it because he had planned this whole day for me, and we were both pretending it wasn't happening. We were literally driving ourselves to a massage and facial that he had planned and at one point, I was like, "I can't drive anymore. I need to get in the passenger's seat."” ThinkingNeedsI CanWholePastNightFightingHellSonHusbandHappeningsSickDrivingHorribleSeatsMy HusbandMy SonPretendingPassengersMassageFacial Author:June Diane Raphael
“The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my body, feeling the shame, all of it, that I really was able to connect to in that book. So it sort of blew my mind. I was also listening to Tori Amos at the same time, so I was like, "Wait, what's happening?!" It was all a part of that, probably when I was, like, 13.” MindFirstsBookFeelingsBodyAbleWaitingRevolutionListeningHappeningsFirst TimeShameDescribingSexual Revolution Author:June Diane Raphael
“I'm crazy about Diane Von Furstenberg. It's a relationship that's very different; I don't see Diane a lot. So when I saw the article in New York magazine she looked so beautiful and it was talking about her work, too. She set up the interview and it was happening. That's different than someone writing a book about you who you've never met.” WritingBookDifferentBeautifulTalkingSawsCrazyNew YorkMetsHappeningsMagazinesInterviewsArticlesWriting A Book Author:Diana Ross
“I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the city as having to do with African-Americans and being in debt, and all the issues like crime and bad housing. But what happened is that when globalization took place, following World War II, Detroit's role as the center and the symbol of industrialization was destroyed. It wasn't because we had black citizens mainly or a black mayor; it was because the world was changing.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarBlackCitiesRolesIssuesHappenedCrimeCitizensHappeningsBiggerFollowingDebtDestroyedSymbolsAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiDeclineWorld War IGlobalizationHousingMayorsDetroitIndustrialization Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution. The things that are happening in Detroit would amaze you if you're used to only looking at statistics, and only thinking of blacks as sufferers and not as activists.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingTryingChildrenJobsUsedHugeRevolutionHappeningsStartingStatisticsActivistGardeningUrbanDetroitSufferersHuge Changes Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.” WayImportantDifferentPlayHappensRunningCoursesStuffCan DoLinesDecisionHappeningsImportant ThingsTechniqueThings HappenBlockDifferent ThingsTargetZeroSplitsMultipleAngleSlow DownDistractedQuarterbackAssignmentsDifferent AnglesLinebackers Author:Bill Belichick
“What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsLooksStillsHappensPoliticalCan DoRevolutionIntellectualSpringHappeningsOptimismStartingAwakeningAnalysisSentimentsDictatorCautiousStarting PointPolitical PowerAdvocatingIrreversibleArab WorldArab Spring Author:Tariq Ramadan
“You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.” StatesTodayInterestUnitedUnited StatesHappeningsOilMonarchy Author:Tariq Ramadan
“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.” WantTryingLooksHappensTodayUnderstandingTomorrowHappeningsCarpe Diem Author:Omar Khayyam
“Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.” WayShouldWellsAmericaPoliticalSpeakSocialVoiceCommunityIssuesPolicyInvolvedRacismHappeningsRaisesInstitutionsIslamInternationalConnectedDiscriminationRelatedTortureIllegalSolitarySpeaks OutAmerican SocietyConfinementMonitoringGuantanamoPolitical IssuesSolitary ConfinementGuantanamo BayAmerican LeadershipDomestic Policy Author:Tariq Ramadan
“On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional gender roles that is not talked about that really permeates these conversations. There is this vacillation between a desire for independence and having the kinds of sexual freedom that men have and, on the other side, issues about female vulnerability and susceptibility to male aggression and violence. We need more honesty about the actual conditions in which sex is happening.” MenNeedsKindStillsDesireSexSidesRolesIssuesViolenceConditionsHavensHonestyConversationHappeningsFemaleIndependenceMalesGenderTraditionalVulnerabilityAggressionGender RolesAurasSusceptibilityVacillationAggression And Violence Author:Laura Kipnis
“I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.” IfsMenMindChildrenEnergyDevelopmentHappeningsAreasFaultsAverageAverage ManGrandioseRural Areas Author:Chinua Achebe
“We know what totalitarian looks like, we know what oppression looks like, we know what the dumb culture of totalitarianism smells like. This is it! It's happening now, and the future of the world is being decided. So, get out there, make your own sites, take action!” KnowsWorldLooksActionCultureHappeningsDecidedSmellOppressionDumbSiteTotalitarianismNow And The Future Author:Alex Jones
“I'm a free-thinker. I'm an American. I'm very concerned with what's happening. So, I just give it my all. I've learned how to take care of myself and detach from outcomes because, otherwise, you can't survive.” GivingCareHappeningsConcernedTake CareOutcomesI've LearnedThinkerFree Thinkers Author:Matt Drudge
“My biggest achievement is raising a healthy, happy family. As far as regrets, I don't really have too many. Although I've gone through some things in my life that didn't feel too good while they were happening, they allowed me to mature and develop into the man I am today. Those moments have taught me a lot. I wouldn't be the same person if I hadn't had those experiences.” IfsMenFeelsPersonsMomentsTodayGoneTaughtHe ManRegretHealthyAchievementHappeningsMatureHappy FamilyHealthy Happy Author:Snoop Dogg
“You got to do well at your craft ultimately, especially if you know that people are observing you and watching you and you don't want to get out there and produce subpar work. Because that's how people look at it. They don't just look at you as an athlete, they look at it as o you're an athlete and you're a Christian, what's happening now?” PeopleIfsKnowsWantWellsLooksChristianProduceHappeningsAthleteCraftsObserving Author:LeCrae
“Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak. But Germany should never forget that France is Europe's political heart. What is happening here today foreshadows what will happen in the rest of Europe in the coming years: the great return of the nation-state, which they wanted to obliterate.” ShouldYearsHeartStatesHappensTodayWantedPoliticalNationsForgetLeaderEconomicReturnHappeningsEuropeWeakFranceGermanyNever Forget Author:Marine Le Pen
“I've never been one to say I know exactly that we're in the last days, but there's some things happening these days, both good and bad, that make me wonder if we may be heading into the final generation. One of the good things that's happening is that little by little we're taking the gospel to the whole world. But at the same time there is this resistance.” IfsKnowsWorldMayLittlesWholeLastsWonderGenerationsHappeningsGood ThingsFinalsThings HappenWhole WorldResistanceThese DaysGood And BadHeadingsLast Day Author:Max Lucado
“When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.” ThinkingWayMindWellsMatterIndividualHappeningsNo Matter WhatOne WayAffected Author:Willie Nelson
“Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations, there are important things happening; where the indigenous populations have been marginalized or exterminated, things go to a disaster. This is true worldwide, and Bolivia is striking because it's a majority population and in the lead.” Has BeensImportantTalkingHappeningsImportant ThingsMajorityThreatEnvironmentalPopulationDisasterThings HappenCatastropheIndigenousMarginalizedBolivia Author:Noam Chomsky
“In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world. The last remnant of the commons is the environment, which the indigenous people are still trying to preserve and we sophisticated rich people are trying to destroy.” PeopleWorldTryingKindStillsStatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesRichEnvironmentHappenedHappeningsProgramEnglandDestroyedPreservesSophisticatedIndigenousRich PeopleIndigenous PeopleRemnantsEnclosure Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'm such a huge fan of television and what's happening in television, right now. You are able to visit characters and visit a story, week to week, push things in a different way than you can in a film, and you are able to go deeper, simply because you have more time. I'm just excited to do that. It's always good to do new things.” WayDifferentCharacterStoriesAbleFilmWeekFansTelevisionHugeRight NowHappeningsExcitedDeeperDifferent WaysMore TimeNew Things Author:Dakota Fanning
“I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.” PeopleThinkingWayTwoIdeasMightActionStarsWhiteHappeningsAfrican AmericanAsianAction MovieAsian AmericanSidekicks Author:Roger Ebert
“In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.” WorldHappeningsBordersShifting Author:Pico Iyer
“I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative is that whatever is happening in the reality of America, where there is a murder rate worse than Lebanon's and where there is so much homelessness and poverty, still America will be a shorthand throughout the world for everything that is young and modern and free.” ThinkingWorldStillsDifferentRealityAmericaYoungNationsPovertyModernHappeningsMurderNotionRateSymbolsTouchingHomelessnessLebanonShorthand Author:Pico Iyer
“Awareness is very, very important because we're living in a world which is literally shrinking by the day. We are global citizens. So, for us not to be aware of what's happening to our neighbor is almost sad. Once you're aware, then you can decide what cause you want to dedicate your time to.” WorldWantImportantCausesAwarenessCitizensHappeningsNeighborGlobal CitizenShrinking Author:Freida Pinto
“The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say, "It happened." Do the best you can with what you think happened, but a lot of other people are going to see it happening differently.” PeopleThinkingKnowsValuesFoundHappenedHappeningsEducationalSubjectiveDo The Best Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.” PeopleFactsLife IsLiteratureSpacePersonalityHappeningsRelationResponsePsychologicalMaskObscureDiscounts Author:Karan Mahajan
“In television and films, you never know the fate of anything. Focusing on the present moment - not getting so caught up on what could happen - that's been my biggest focus. Everything's happening seemingly at once.” KnowsMomentsHappensFilmFocusFateTelevisionHappeningsCaughtPresent MomentCaught Up Author:Christine Evangelista