“I don't want to denounce musicals because they certainly have a message they want to communicate. But with straight plays, there is a focus on what's going on between people and relationships. I think so much is happening in the world at the moment, so many changes politically and culturally, writers are writing about that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantWritingPlayMomentsFocusMessagesHappeningsCommunicate Author:Sean Mahon
“Once the world sees this Synagogue of Satan as it really is and knows the players, they fear what will happen to them. The world will turn against them and that is happening now as we speak.” KnowsWorldHappensTurnsSpeakPlayerHappeningsSatanSynagogue Author:Louis Farrakhan
“As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more; the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.” PeopleWorldLongI CanGoalLosesInterestingBecomingHappeningsUltimateMusicalUltimate Goal Author:Cass McCombs
“I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.” WorldFeelsKindArtBlackHappeningsMetalsArt WorldCrossoverBlack Metal Author:Mick Barr
“There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.” PeopleWorldStillsSongReadyHappeningsGratefulInjusticeConcertsSo Grateful Author:Mavis Staples
“Emotion operates, very often when you think about how you react to the world, you know, something is happening to you, you're simply going along and you're being confronted by different things, not necessarily very important or significance for your ultimate life, but you are constantly reacting to the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldImportantDifferentEmotionHappeningsUltimateDifferent ThingsSignificanceReacting Author:Antonio Damasio
“I think global coordination is tremendously important. I hope we can see this happening through the G20 and through coordination of regulatory regimes around the world. I guess those are the main features of this bill that are important.” ThinkingWorldImportantHappeningsBillsAround The WorldFeaturesRegimesCoordination Author:Robert F. Engle
“When you see what is happening with the social network, with Facebook, Twitter and co it is becoming obvious that the reputation of ourselves is becoming more and more important everyday. Image is becoming too much for me, and we are living in a virtual world and sometimes it is very easy to make mistakes. It is more difficult to take responsibility for our mistakes.” WorldImportantSometimesSocialEasyDifficultMistakeResponsibilityToo MuchBecomingHappeningsEverydayObviousReputationMaking MistakesTaking ResponsibilityBecoming MoreSocial NetworkVirtual World Author:Emmanuel Petit
“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
“I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.” WorldKindTodayStuffHappeningsOppositesStartingBunchOur WorldWorld TodaySuggesting Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.” ThinkingWorldDangerousHappeningsBeastWoundedPatriarchy Author:Jane Fonda
“See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.” WorldHappeningsProtectionAround The World Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.” WorldPayAttentionHappeningsHip HopActiveNoiseHipsHopsSubconsciousFlavor Author:Baratunde Thurston
“Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.” WorldGivingTryingWellsUseLightOrderActorsGrowing UpIssuesGrowingFiguresBalanceHappeningsShiningI RealizedPlatformsGiving BackSpotlight Author:Serinda Swan
“We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things.” WorldReturnHappenings Author:Jimmy Cliff
“The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.” WorldImportantHelpingValuesNationsUnderstandingDifferencesQualityClearSecurityHappeningsEvidenceImportanceArmyIndependentElectionChinaCoreProceduresQuality Of LifeTransparencyJudicialCore ValuesJudicial System Author:Ai Weiwei
“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.” WorldWritingBookIdeasStoriesSocialWhiteGroupsMovementRevolutionInternetComputerHappeningsGreedDrivenIdeologyHatsDisruptionHackersSocial Movements Author:Julia Stiles
“I think that we have two things going on in the world right now. We have one sort of vibe that's love who you are, be yourself, love your flaws, embrace your body, embrace your inner beauty, all of that. And then we have another very looks-based thing happening at the same time, you know?” ThinkingKnowsWorldLooksTwoBodyLove YouSelf LoveRight NowHappeningsWho You AreEmbraceYour BodyThings HappenTwo ThingsBeing YourselfFlawsInner Beauty Author:Dakota Fanning
“I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.” WorldNeedsKindPersonsDoneCertainNamesHappeningsShadowMusicalBrandsDiscouragingDjsWeird ThingsRemixBrand Names Author:Paul Morley
“I'm coming from a place where I have seen a different way to handle it, or a slightly different way to go through what is happening, that gives me some perspective. So I think it always helps. It always helps to have someone who has traveled the world or seen a different way to do something. That helps give you perspective.” ThinkingWorldWayGivingDifferentHelpingPerspectiveHappeningsGive MeHandleDifferent WaysTraveled Author:Trevor Noah
“[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.” WorldKindSongSurvivalHappenings Author:Van Morrison
“I do believe that we are living in the last days. I know this has been said before but there are events happening in our world right now that, to me, are what we call signs of the times.” KnowsWorldBelieveHas BeensSaidLastsEventsRight NowHappeningsOur WorldLast Day Author:Greg Laurie
“One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?” IfsWorldReasonProblemTodayAmericaLostHappeningsDoctorsAngryLeavingUniversityReason WhyTherapyFacultySessionDoctor WhoNigeriaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisPhysical TherapyComing To America Author:Chinua Achebe
“There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there. It's all changing and happening and they're able to maybe not play their movies in theaters but get them on the internet. This is the new wave, the new world.” WorldDifferentPlayStoriesAbleYoungArtistViewsDyingInternetHappeningsTheaterWavePoint Of ViewFilmmakerNew WorldDifferent Points Of ViewYoung Artists Author:Alex Stapleton
“In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.” WorldHas BeensStillsBigsGrowthCasesAmountBirthHappeningsWestRatePopulationDroppingPopulation GrowthBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.” WorldWellsHappensEconomyHappeningsTradeChinaConnected Author:Christine Lagarde
“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.” WorldWayFactsHappeningsIndependentCorporationsStringsDisruptionCombiningOperatorsBuckminster FullerStrings AttachedNo Strings Attached Author:Jonathon Keats
“I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.” WorldKindI CanPassionProcessMy OwnEvolutionElementsHappeningsWho You AreConstantInterviewsBubblesSincerelyThought ProcessDior Author:Charlize Theron
“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
“We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.” WorldMadeBigsMightHugeLessonsHappeningsCrisisFinancialI RealizedScalesFinanceDataExplosionsFinancial Crisis Author:Cathy O'Neil
“When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldBlackFieldsIndustryBenefitsHappeningsDown AndSouthWorkersSouthernMore MoneyMexicanClosingCottonMichiganMigrantsAuto IndustryClosing DownCotton FieldsMigrant Workers Author:Bell Hooks
“This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.” WorldWantWorryFrontsUniqueHappeningsPorchFingerprintsFront Porches Author:Kelly Clarkson
“There's so much noise that's happening in our world, but the little voice that you've always got to listen to is your gut and your intuition, and you can do things and go beyond boundaries, if you to trust that gut and instinct.” IfsWorldLittlesVoiceCan DoHappeningsInstinctIntuitionBoundariesNoiseGutsOur World Author:Dwayne Johnson
“Those of us who believe in human rights and the truth - particularly the journalists and the media - should stand in defense of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. We owe them a lot for telling us the truth of what is happening in our world, and that is why I would continue to support them.” WorldShouldBelieveHumansSupportRightsMediaHappeningsHuman RightsDefenseJournalistOur WorldAssangeBradley Manning Author:Mairead Corrigan
“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
“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
“We have to protect America. So I'm all for finding out how in the world this stuff is happening and so that we can put systems in place to protect Americans.” WorldAmericaStuffProtectFindingsHappenings Author:Reince Priebus
“People come to my shows and know that they're going to hear about what's going on in the world - what's happening at the moment. My material is as new as anything on the dinner table.” PeopleKnowsWorldMomentsShowsMaterialsHappeningsTablesDinnerDinner Table Author:Jackie Mason
“What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.” WorldCoursesNaturalEventsHappenings Author:Byron Katie
“I think as far as the Miami one - I don't speak for the other two - but as far as the Miami one goes, I just think that there is a level of like glamour to it and you see sexy people, things happening to the rich people. It kind of takes you to a different world. I think that is kind of part of the success.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindTwoDifferentSpeakLevelsRichHappeningsSexyThings HappenGlamourRich PeopleDifferent WorldsMiami Author:Boti Bliss
“You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been.” WorldWayWholeMotherAwarenessHappeningsBeing YourselfFulfilledBeing A Woman Author:Alicia Keys
“I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.” WorldYearsCountryFormFeltHappenedIgnoranceParticularHappeningsYears AgoCirclesSuperficialSinkingHappening Again Author:Raoul Peck
“In the longer term, I hope that as Vietnam evolves into a more prosperous society with active ties to the international marketplace, it will lose its inherent suspicion of the outside world and begin to develop along the lines of what has recently been happening in Thailand and Malaysia.” WorldTermLosesLinesHappeningsInternationalActiveEvolveTiesVietnamInherentSuspicionProsperousMarketplaceOutside WorldThailandMalaysia Author:William J. Duiker
“I think there's so many things happening, whether it's gender inequality or immigration, there's just so many issues happening around the world where not doing anything makes you guilty.” ThinkingWorldIssuesHappeningsGenderThings HappenImmigrationGuiltyInequalityAround The WorldGender Inequality Author:Lilly Singh
“Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.” PeopleKnowsWorldWatchesNewsHappeningsTapeJunkieBreadth Author:Lorna Luft
“James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.” IfsWorldWholeSocialHalfClassCenturyIdentityHappeningsDignityCriticsWesternBrilliantInevitableUncertaintyTensionAssumptionDistinctionDestructiveTrendsYearningMaintainingTwentieth CenturyUnspokenWestern WorldAmerican WriterHumanisticIntricacyPersonal IdentityWestern SocietyClass Distinction Author:Raoul Peck
“I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.” WorldFeelsTryingLooksHelpingShowsFeelingsMovingArtistSongLanguageSoundBlackEnvironmentParticularTvsHappeningsSkinsTwentiesSmellStatementsTv ShowsAmerican WomanMessiness Author:Morgan Parker
“The political awakening that is happening worldwide is a major challenge for America, because it means that the world is much more restless. It's stirring. It has aspirations which are not easily satisfied. And if America is to lead, it has to relate itself somehow to these new, lively, intense political aspirations, which make our age so different from even the recent past.” IfsWorldMeanDifferentAgeAmericaPastPoliticalChallengesMajorsHappeningsAwakeningSatisfiedIntenseRelateAspirationRestlessLivelyStirringRecent Past Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“When I'm in a state of goodness about the world, no matter what is happening, I see that goodness. But if I'm in an irritable, angry, separate state, I've shut down.” IfsWorldMatterStatesGoodnessHappeningsNo Matter WhatAngry Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.” WorldWarTodayRememberCoursesViolenceStupidHappeningsCompareWar Of The WorldsArrogantHumankindWorld War IWorld TodaySecond World WarGrotesqueDominating Author:Elie Wiesel