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The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.
I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.
The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?
The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.
X Games, it's an event but it's still ... it's a show. I try to put on the best show possible, ... I'm thrilled. This is awesome.
Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.
I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.
Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?
Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.
My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.
Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.
This is a very pivotal time in America and I think families are still reeling from events depicted in that movie [The Big Short ].
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.
I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.
In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.
I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.
A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.
I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.
I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.
In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.
Being psychic does not necessarily mean seeing an event that has not yet occurred. It is rather seeing the inner nature of something.
Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.
Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.
Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.