Events Quotes
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
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Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.
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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.
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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
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That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.
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When I was in high school, I started organizing fundraisers and other events for people like PETA and Greenpeace.
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Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.
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Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
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Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
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Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?
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New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
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Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.
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We are not to lead events, but to follow them.
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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.
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Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact.
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.
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I hate how when I have a bunch of events going on and I have to get my hair done so much, [then] I have to wash it more often. It's definitely better not to.
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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
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The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.
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The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.
