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“If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can also imagine of what's going to be Bachir's life afterwards. So, there's the restraint part, and there's the fact that the story is happening in the school which allowed me to tackle all these subjects without making it too didactic, because in the school everything happens.”

Ifs Giving Looks Ends Facts Stories Happens School Space Imagine Subjects Happenings Things Happen Restraint Spectators Didactic

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.”

People Ifs Thinking Whole Running Past Cities Liberty Streets Happenings Parks Statues Ecosystems Batteries Horatio Statue Of Liberty Nowhere To Go Central Park Ferry

Author:Andy Cohen

“One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me.... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.”

Ifs Enough Shows Can Do Happenings Improvement Good Enough Catalyst Not Good Enough Continuous Improvement

Author:David J. Anderson

“One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.”

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Author:Fatema Mernissi

“I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case a library... I think that's great sometimes but we really treat it like Monday through Friday come in early. You're not late for inspiration. You're working through it no matter what is happening even if you're writing a terrible version.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Writing Sometimes Matter Inspiration Walks Cases Terrible Late Happenings Treats No Matter What Library Versions Tendencies Monday Friday

Author:Roberto Orci

“I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.”

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Author:Robert Heinecken

“If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself to relax and not worry about things happening right away. That's a mistake a lot of people make - they think a year is a long time and it's really not.”

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Author:Christian Finnegan

“The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Would Be Language Too Much Fine Happenings Asking Structure Intention Reaching Working It Viewers Constructs Disruption Asking Too Much

Author:Lorna Simpson

“My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.”

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Author:Bill Burr

“What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“Is everybody that depressed? It's a depressing feeling to me. You know: "I lost my baby." I don't care if you lost your baby, I care if you're feeling OK. Don't tell me your problem - tell me what good's been happening to you.”

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Author:Alice Cooper

“As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.”

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Author:Rodney Howard-Browne

“If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.”

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Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner

“If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.”

Ifs Song Stuff Sound Happenings

Author:Tamaryn

“Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the gap between what happens in schools and what happens in the real world. Because of their personalities, or for cultural reasons, some kids might better express themselves through moving images and sound.”

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Author:Seymour Papert

“I would say there is a conversation happening between your body and mind all the time. Even when you're sleeping, your body is communicating the information to your mind. And so to me it feels like, why not harness that? If it's happening all the time, why not control the content of the conversation?”

Ifs Feels Mind Body Sleep Information Conversation Happenings Communicate Your Body Why Not Mind And Body Harness

Author:Amy Cuddy

“If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.”

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Author:Thom Yorke

“If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.”

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Author:Wes Anderson

“Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.”

Ifs Willing Happenings Inevitable Contemplating

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.”

Ifs Mind Silence Quiet Happenings Silent Silence Is Contagious

Author:H. W. L. Poonja

“If you are to be an effective nation builder, make it your business, to understand what is really happening in the economy, both nationally and globally.”

Ifs Nations Economy Happenings Builder

Author:Strive Masiyiwa

“Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.”

Ifs Looks Night Happenings

Author:Don DeLillo

“If you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks States Consciousness Happenings

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“If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.”

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Author:W. S. Merwin

“Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.”

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Author:Hal Holbrook

“I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“If you're going to break up, it reaches a point where whatever is happening is not working and it all comes to a head. I think that's a tough realization and it's hard to communicate sometimes. You just have to think about your happiness and the other person's happiness, and communicate really honestly.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Sometimes Hard Break Happenings Tough Communicate Honestly Realization

Author:Tyler Blackburn

“If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.”

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Author:Gary Cole

“If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is a world of masters and serfs, a kind of permanent underclass. That's what's happening; that's what's being created. Rapacious corporate business interests have shattered all kinds of regulations and controls. They have carried out a coup d'etat in slow motion. And it's over; they've won.”

Ifs World Kind States Interest Masters Happenings All Kinds Corporate Permanent Fearful Regulation Shattered Barrels Coups Slow Motion Serfs

Author:Chris Hedges

“I think dreams hold a lot of meaning. I believe that if the universe is truthfully infinite then there are infinite possibilities for dreams to be happening somewhere out there.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Dream Universe I Believe Possibility Happenings Infinite Infinite Possibilities Somewhere Out There

Author:Tom DeLonge

“I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know if I can find the words for it, but if this country ever recovers, it will not be in my lifetime. If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.”

Ifs Thinking Television Happenings Everyday

Author:Diahann Carroll

“I had promised myself when I first got started that if I got to the point my life where I started feeling 'Gee, I'd rather be at home than at work', and that started happening more often than not, that it would be time to leave. I'd wake up some days and go "Oh, I don't even know if I want to go face this anymore". I would, I would go do it, I'm a dutiful kind of person and not afraid of work.”

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Author:Bernie Finkelstein

“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.”

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Author:Stephen Karam

“If you're not broadcasting what people feel is their truth as it relates to you, well that becomes a problem. If your not broadcasting how much you love your boyfriend or husband via social media, problems occur in the home and I really think this is happening more than we acknowledge.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Wells Problem Home Social Love You Media Husband Happenings Social Media Relate Acknowledge Broadcasting Your Boyfriend

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so I Googled it. For everything Obama stands for and the things he's said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing - and I'm not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral - that can't happen.”

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Author:Adepero Oduye

“If a band isn't coming up with two to four of those when they pick up their instruments, then they have problems - even if none of them turn into a song. If that's not happening in a band, it's time for therapy or breaking up.”

Ifs Two Problem Song Turns Four Band Happenings Picks Instruments Therapy

Author:Travis Morrison

“It's the balance between wanting the power of electronics and having something real happening - if you want people to engage in what you're doing, I think that's important. I want to have fun with people, but that's hard to do with a laptop.”

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Author:Anna Meredith

“The main one is that these apparel jobs are a very important means for young women in these countries to gain autonomy. The other big lesson is that it can't be just about activism. This is most clear to me in the case of China, where we do not have freedom of the press. If the press is free and can report on what's happening, then change happens.”

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Author:Pietra Rivoli

“I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.”

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Author:Frederick Buechner

“I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.”

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Author:Mat McNerney

“I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.”

“I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.”

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Author:Mavis Staples

“So when Community came up and then the movie roles started happening I was very grateful. I am trying to be careful with the movie roles I select because if you pull the trigger too quickly, like choosing a lead role in a crappy movie then you will be put in movie jail and you will never be heard from again. If it's not a big hit you'll be forgotten pretty fast.”

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Author:Joel McHale

“If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I think it has to be a very profound, nearly spiritual maturing process in the Colombian society because I think you have to first be aware of what's happening and it's not easy because many people don't want to see what's happening.”

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Author:Ingrid Betancourt

“Now there's some night terrors that happen in adults. And if it starts as an adult and you've never had them before, then there might be other things that are happening; it might be anxiety, depression, stress. And that's when you might have more of a thorough psychological evaluation.”

Ifs Might Happens Night Anxiety Happenings Adults Stress Terror Psychological Thorough Evaluation Night Terrors Anxiety Depression

Author:Shelby Harris

“If you take skinny jeans - skinny jeans didn't just happen in the US, they were happening in Japan, they were happening in the UK, they were happening everywhere. Some places a little faster than others. But, if we look at our best sellers in this store, they're the same best sellers that we have in the States.”

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Author:Paul Weller

“If you're going to make a big wave, you have to be totally unified with everything that's happening... Maybe in the moment of having to know everything all at once you burst through the barriers of trying to put things in order.”

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Author:Nick Carroll

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