Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn’t happen.

I didn’t do anything for two years but work on ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it...

I do think I’m lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it...

Russia was culturally isolated for so long that some sort of transformation needs to happen and will happen.

Life just doesn’t hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that’s the exciting part.

It didn’t happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn’t get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they’re supposed to happen and the way they’re supposed to happen.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That’s not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

The interesting roles have only come since I got into my 30s. But I didn’t know that was going to happen.

Once in awhile, there’s stuff that makes me say, That’s what theatre’s about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn’t happen very often.

I’m not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there’s going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what’s going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There...

I’d seen people overstay their welcome and I didn’t want that to happen at all.

Never be complacent about the current steps; don’t agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible impact with great change. Now, dress up and go to make it happen!

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they’d be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what’s going to happen tomorrow.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what’s going to happen next.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I’m kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

I don’t write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that’s going to happen. There’s an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then...

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that’s just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example,...

I think there’s an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we’re complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

It’s very, very difficult when you have to prepare for something that might not ever happen.

If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that’s when you can make magic happen. It’s a huge combination of trying to find something you think...

If people are fans of ‘Mindfreak,’ they are going to be so excited with ‘Believe.’ They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.

Waiters and quitters have a little difference; quitters begin well but do not finish it; waiters do not begin it at all. Don’t be part of their tragedy. Go, make it happen now!

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along – that’s the only way you can create music. If you don’t feel any emotions, it’s not going to happen.

Seems like nothing’s getting safer or better,” I said. “Seems like everything’s getting worse.” “Maybe that’s what’s gotta happen,” Willa Mae said. “Maybe everything’s gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it...

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn’t always happen.

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals....

In the marathon anything can happen.

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes – it’s just never going to happen.

Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That’s because some of the media didn’t give the public the full story.

If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don’t know the director. If there’s a good screenplay, there’s a chance that something...

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be...

Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I’d rather just not be involved. I’m not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have...

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don’t care.

The President of the Church will not lead the people of the Church astray. It will never happen.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can’t believe I won’t exist. It’s the ego isn’t it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than...

Wrinkles happen to human beings.

I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months’ time. I just want to keep working....

I feel very strongly that you can’t just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won’t happen otherwise.

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.

When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill’s phrase, ‘Never, never, never give up’, and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but...

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

My dream collaboration is with Lauryn Hill. Is that ever gonna’ happen? Who knows! But there’s still a lot I feel like musically I could do.

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That’s what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don’t hanker for it.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.