“Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.” PeopleKnowsBookMy OwnSeeingSubjectsStudentsFindingsHappeningsLibraryCuriousInterviewsPerpetualGoing Out Author:Eric Schlosser
“Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."” PeoplePoliticalTermHappeningsSignificanceHolistic Author:Marianne Williamson
“The rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one master for another. The only real change would be to socialize the means of production and this is what's happening in Jamaica.” PeopleWorldMeanRealCountryWould BeSeeingMastersHappeningsThirdsProductionsTradingThird WorldJamaicaReal Change Author:Huey Newton
“For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.” PeopleWellsMightPlanetsHappeningsBrussels Author:Martin Schulz
“Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.” PeopleThinkingArtWarBodyTogetherCulturePiecesStreetsRocksExampleMovementTaughtIntellectualHappeningsMovedActivismAnti WarRock And RollConstructsEnergeticEmbodimentSeize The DayAnti War Movement Author:Eve Ensler
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.” PeopleHardHappensCertainWinningChanceRaceAcceptingCrazyHard WorkEasierHappeningsAcceptedThings HappenInjuredDecrease Author:Usain Bolt
“So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to the concert love the music - they loved him and loved his music - for the first time in concert it's not only the music. Now it's time to know the man. We know the music, but what was the man like?” PeopleKnowsMenFirstsHe ManHappeningsFirst TimeConcertsAudio Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.
“The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.” PeopleChallengesFocusListeningHappenings Author:Amanda Palmer
“Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.” PeopleKnowsGivingTryingHumansArtDecisionLevelsAwarenessMediaInformationTelevisionHappeningsReflectionEncouragementFascinatedGeneralizationLife Happens Author:Reggie Watts
“People are fed up. They are fed up with what's happening in Washington. They are fed up with both parties. They are fed up with politicians who have lied to them.” PeoplePartyPoliticianHappeningsFedsLiedFed Up Author:Ted Cruz
“Every day, no matter what is happening around me, I consciously try to discipline my own feelings and my mind about what I have to be grateful for, because by any stretch of the imagination - even during the worst times when people are accusing me of things and doing all that they do - I'm a very lucky person.” PeopleTryingMindPersonsMatterFeelingsImaginationMy OwnWorstDisciplineLuckyHappeningsNo Matter WhatGratefulBe GratefulAccusingWorst TimesLucky PersonAccusing Me Author:Hillary Clinton
“In America, to have news that has explicitly taken a position is a very strange place to be in, and it's a very dangerous place to be in. And that's happening on Facebook, as you saw, and that's happening online. People are just being given their news and not the news, which is really, really scary.” PeopleAmericaGivenTakenSawsDangerousPositionStrangeNewsHappeningsScaryOnlineJust BeingDangerous PlacesReally ScaryStrange Places Author:Trevor Noah
“I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for the USA. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone. That's not happening.” PeopleMenCountryFightingJusticeLibertyGoneHe ManHappeningsMen And WomenUsaGreat RespectLiberty And JusticeFighting For Freedom Author:Colin Kaepernick
“People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.” PeopleGivingEndsAmericaJusticeLibertyDyingHappeningsVainBargains Author:Colin Kaepernick
“For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the pictures. One of the few things I always tell people in my pictures is that I want less - give me something less.” PeopleWantGivingLittlesHappeningsGive MeStorytellingNarrative Author:Gregory Crewdson
“I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.” PeopleKnowsPlayDreamFilmRolesPeriodsHappeningsIntenseDramaticStakesStressedStressed Out Author:Clea DuVall
“What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.” PeopleChoicesCompanyRecordsPeriodsHappeningsAlbumsManagersTitlesTransitionRecord CompaniesHarvey Author:Van Morrison
“There are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in the USA on a daily basis.” PeopleFeelsMadeHappeningsBasesInjusticeUsa Author:Eric Reid
“International terrorists have proved quite skilled at misleading many people about what is actually happening here in the Caucasus, and they continue to mislead people today.” PeopleTodayHappeningsInternationalTerroristMisleadCaucasus Author:Vladimir Putin
“It's just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is hilarious, so no. You know what it is? People are adults and they know they're at a comedy show but every once in a while somebody isn't an adult and then for some reason, you know, it's lazy reporting. They're trying to create this thing that isn't happening. It's not like people go in there and are just sitting with laptops open getting ready to blog about every stupid joke.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingPersonsReasonShowsTalkingComedyStupidReadyHappeningsJokesSittingAdultsClimateLazySay AnythingBlogsClicksLaptopsBaitVery StupidComedy ShowsStupid Jokes Author:Bill Burr
“I invite people to just stop and be still. And in that you discover who you are, because once you discover who you are, you can stop fragmenting into pieces. I know that in any one day there are moments were there is nothing going on, but we link up what is happening from thought to thought without any space. We overlook the spaciousness that it is all happening in.” PeopleKnowsStillsMomentsSpacePiecesOne DayHappeningsWho You AreLinksInvitesSpaciousness Author:Gangaji
“Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.” PeopleKnowsWantedArtistFashionNewsHappeningsWesternExtraordinaryEastChocolateCandyBerlinEast Berlin Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“I think that happens to a lot of people who find themselves thrust into the spotlight and becoming famous before they recognize what's happening to them. Life becomes a little distorted for them.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHappensBecomingHappeningsThrustSpotlightBecoming Famous Author:Linda D. Thompson
“There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.” PeopleRealBigsDifferencesHappeningsPersonal Relationships Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John Moores Painting Prize and that was very interesting for me, because some of the judges are Chinese and some are British, and we look at the work together. It was fascinating that most of the time we were in complete agreement, but some of the time we were not. People send their works from all over China. For a foreigner, this gave me a very good picture about what is happening in China and its art today.” PeopleThinkingLooksArtImportantTodayTogetherInterestingPaintingJudgingHappeningsVery GoodChinaBritishChineseFascinatingAgreementWorking TogetherPrizeVery InterestingForeignersExhibitionsShanghai Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react when the economy is collapsing and they're losing their homes, losing their pensions - it sort of tracks, what ended up happening, because some of that is human nature.” PeopleHumansHomeHappensPresidentPartyEconomyHuman NatureLosingHappeningsTrackPension Author:Barack Obama
“[Hillary Clinton] was saying, "We never going to do anything in Iraq, we're not going to do anything in Syria." Enemies, do whatever you want. Continue the largest humanitarian crisis, 7 million people displaced refugees. Do all this. We're not going to do anything. That is the type of stuff that is been happening for the past 7 1/2 years under President [Barack] Obama.” PeopleWantYearsPastStuffPresidentEnemyMillionsTypeHappeningsCrisisClintonIraqHumanitarianBarackSyriaRefugeePresident Barack ObamaDo Whatever You Want Author:John McCain
“People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.” PeopleHeartHas BeensSaidStatesWantedUsedChoicesRealizingMy HeartHappeningsDoctorsThirdsAccessBrokeAbortionCould Have BeenClinicMaking ChoicesProfundityBroke My HeartFundraiserReceptionistsThank You For Coming Author:Lizz Winstead
“What's blinking red on my radar is the fact that for people who prioritize abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights, those things are coming out of state legislatures, and some of the laws on reproduction stuff is coming out of city council, and so what's getting at me is the fact that there's just a fundamental lack of understanding that these laws are happening and being created by people who often won by ten votes in a midterm election.” PeopleStatesFactsLawStuffUnderstandingCitiesRightsTenHappeningsRedVoteElectionFundamentalsAbortionVotingComing OutCouncilLegislatureReproductionRadarRight To VotePrioritizeLack Of UnderstandingAbortion RightsState LegislaturesMidtermsCity CouncilMidterm Elections Author:Lizz Winstead
“Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [ abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights] very much because Donald Trump and the general election is sucking all the air out of the room - if people aren't paying attention to their state, they're certainly not paying attention to what's happening in other states.” PeopleIfsStatesFactsStuffRoomsAttentionRightsAirTrumpHappeningsElectionPay AttentionAbortionVotingLegislatorsRight To VoteAbortion RightsGeneral ElectionsMidtermsMidterm Elections Author:Lizz Winstead
“I know a lot of people that have been in long-term relationships where cheating has happened, and their marriages and their relationships are actually stronger because it was a mirror that reflected back on a problem that was happening. It's hard.” PeopleKnowsLongHas BeensHardProblemTermHappenedHappeningsStrongerMirrorsLong TermCheatingLong Term Relationship Author:Sutton Foster
“When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.” PeopleStoriesEnvironmentHappeningsWork Out Author:Kate Tempest
“I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's our jobs to be open and to keep moving stuff forward. I don't know what that means. This is the first time in a long time that I have no idea what's happening next. As scary as that is, and as anxiety-provoking as that can still be, it's also really exciting.” PeopleKnowsFeelsFirstsMeanLongStillsIdeasWholeJobsMovingNextStarsStuffRolesExampleChangedAnxietyLong TimeHappeningsFirst TimeExcitingYeahScaryNo IdeaPrimeProvokingKeep MovingAbram Author:Zachary Quinto
“I wrote [Valley of Violence] entirely with James Ransone in mind. I get such a joy out of watching his performance and seeing people watch this. He's so great. The bravado thing and the foolishness, he does them both so well. It's weird because he's so hateable in the movie, but in the end, you're also going, "I feel bad for him." That's hard to do. It's hard to do that to where you're like, "This guy's the worst, but I know why he's the worst, so it's a shame this is happening." That's the whole thing.” PeopleKnowsFeelsMindWellsDoeEndsHardWholeJoyGuyWatchesViolenceSeeingWorstHappeningsPerformancesShameValleysFoolishnessThis GuyBravado Author:Ti West
“I always encourage people to start in their own personal universe, because sometimes we as parents start thinking about the big picture. How do I change what's happening in my entire school? And how do I do it in my community? And then you get overwhelmed and it's just like, "Forget it, I'll just stay here in my kitchen and wait." But, start small.” PeopleThinkingSometimesBigsSchoolUniverseWaitingParentCommunityForgetHappeningsKitchenOverwhelmedForget ItBig Picture Author:Michelle Obama
“Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMeanStoriesTermHappeningsConcernScientistClimateClimate ChangeSurfaceConstructsTemperature Author:Dale Jamieson
“When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.” PeopleIfsLooksChanceHappeningsWeakBitternessResentmentNursingGrudgeGazaPerpetrators Author:Desmond Tutu
“My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayFeelsLittlesHappeningsCatSubtleNeighborhoodJargonSlang Author:Nina Simone
“The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had 63,000 people registered on the Freedom Registration form. And we tried from every level to go into the regular Democratic Party medium. We tried from the precinct level. The 16th of June when they were holding precinct meetings all across the state, I was there and there was eight of us there to attend the meeting, and they had the door locked at 10 o'clock in the morning. This is what's happening in the State of Mississippi.” PeopleStatesFormLevelsPartyMorningDoorsHappeningsConstitutionDemocraticMeetingsEightMediumsClockInterpretationLockedJuneDemocratic PartyMississippiRegistration Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year, these things been happening.” PeopleYearsHas BeensBigsBlackHappeningsRiversBlack PeopleMississippi Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.” PeopleWantIdeasCountryStatesEnoughPartyOpinionMediaMassHappeningsVoteThirdsMajorityDebateOur CountryReformCandidatesAgendasSensibleMechanismMass MediaThird PartiesRedirection Author:Ralph Nader
“I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.” PeopleKnowsUsedHappeningsToughUsed To Be Author:Michael Snow
“I mean, we'll be pounding on the guy's chest, you know, on the floor, and you know, he's not going to just jump up all of a sudden. So it makes it tough. I mean, it's tough to be in the legislature, you know, and vote for something and then people say, well, you voted all this money and you know, it's all getting spent. It isn't getting spent. It's getting invested. But it's all getting spent. Nothing's happening.” PeopleKnowsWellsMeanGuyHappeningsToughVoteChestsLegislature Author:Warren Buffett
“What happened to the men's boxing is happening to the women's boxing, but not all the time. Every now and then, you get some really great fights. It's a money thing and how many people are going to buy that pay-per-view for the fights. The UFC is eventually going to go that way.” PeopleMenWayFightingViewsPayHappenedHappeningsBoxingNow And ThenReally GreatUfc Author:Bonnie Canino
“What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.” PeopleHappeningsCommunistCubaCubanCastro Author:Ronald Reagan
“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.” PeopleWorldKindLongLastsCausesCenturyMonthsSixLong TimeHappeningsAreasWestConvictionEightScalesIceDataSoilStableShelvesMeltingArcticGreenland Author:Bill McKibben
“It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.” PeopleHappeningsIce Author:Bill McKibben
“I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsCountryWantedHappeningsEducateOther Countries Author:Angelina Jolie
“The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.” PeopleGovernmentAmericaBlackHappeningsResponsibleBlack People Author:Malcolm X