You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate – were anything can happen.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don’t know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don’t know what is going to happen.

My dictum has always been: ‘This show is happening just here, just tonight, with these people who are in this hall, and nobody knows what’s going to happen until it’s done.’

Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain’s defence for the last 60 years… I will not allow...

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they’re all involved.

Passion surprises. One doesn’t search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed...

I don’t try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

I want to make it so that so many things happen… that you didn’t expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

We are born in one moment. We die in one moment. We can change in one moment. And we can fall in love in one moment. Anything can happen in just one moment.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

If you’re a musician or actor, you know that if you’re successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You’re prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

I feel it’s the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the...

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won’t ever happen again.

I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment...

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient – kick Greece out, everything’s fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone?...

There’s nothing better than not knowing what’s going to happen until you put the pieces together.

I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There’s...

I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn’t really scare me because I don’t think that’s...

I don’t want anything bad to happen to me.

I’m fearless, I don’t complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.

Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.

I’ve always been quite psychic and believe there’s a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

I’ve had two children. I’ve had three boyfriends. I’ve had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

I don’t have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It’s always the people who make things happen.

I’m always amazed at the way some actors’ behaviour is truly disgusting. That’s one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.

You know, I’m just 6’9″ and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

Ah, the pleasure, the joy – a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying ‘it’ll never happen’, only to be confirmed by the Home...

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don’t try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don’t happen in the studio.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

I’m a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don’t have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

Your fear comes not from what you’re afraid will happen. Your fear comes from thinking what may happen. You cannot predict your future. You can however, create your future. What happened yesterday is over. What...

The only person that anybody’s ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don’t wear a hat.

You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to...

I’d love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn’t happen.

‘1984’ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

If it didn’t happen in your life before, then you’re not paying attention you don’t think it’s possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea,...

Somebody showed me a picture of some event I went to back in the day, and I was really going heavy on the turquoise jewelry, and it was not good. I was like, ‘OK, I...

Something’s going to happen that’s going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I’m doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I’m not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

One of the dreariest spots on life’s road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on ‘Sea Lion’ and that’s what I tried to make happen for ‘Metals,’ which is having five people in the room and all of...

We’re working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?