"Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you."
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"Everything happens when it's supposed to."
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"What happens to a dream deferred?"
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"Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it."
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"We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not."
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"It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway."
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"The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen."
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"Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most"
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"I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose."
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"Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them."
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"Life happens not to me but for me"
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"History is never surprising after it happens."
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"I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part."
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"What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other"
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"Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen."
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"It is what we fear that happens to us."
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"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."
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"Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts."
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"There is my favorite quote that I ever heard from her [Lori Petty],... 'Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul.'"
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"Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over."
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