We’ve collected the best Occurred Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Ari Melber, Edith Widder, Annie Lennox, Michael Ian Black, Ruhollah Khomeini. Use them as an inspiration.
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One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington‘s Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.
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Several times in Earth‘s history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.
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‘Feminist comedy,’ practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies‘ war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.
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Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
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At college, everyone’s milestones occurred in shared clumps. Everyone studied, caroused, won, lost – simultaneously. Life is not like that.
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In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting – not ever.
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Once the collection of conversations between the Israeli government and members of Congress occurred, had it been inadvertent, then they would have been destroyed instead of redacted for further use. Had they been inadvertent, then they would not have been forwarded to the White House for review in their redacted form.
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It never occurred to me to be an actor.
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I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.
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Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent years. Ghetto youth are transferred from their decrepit, underfunded, racially segregated schools to brand-new high-tech prisons located in white rural counties.
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What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
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My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one-in-over-100-million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there’s a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science.
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I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I’m not one of those people who’s automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.
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I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.
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It never occurred to me that I couldn’t change things that needed changing or couldn’t have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough.
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It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
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It was the Congress that imposed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn’t really occurred to me as a viable job – I didn’t really know anything about it.
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I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.
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I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it’s never really been about the money.
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I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn’t want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.
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I think it is true that, post the global financial crisis initially – and for some period after that and particularly with how the mining investment boom and commodity prices played out – there was a dislocation that occurred in some of the more traditional mechanisms.
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When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I’m proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon – particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn’t occurred, we would have been another Detroit.
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Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Over time, it’s occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn’t equal.
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When I earned my diploma from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2000, it never occurred to me before my senior year to worry too seriously about my post-graduation prospects. Indeed, most of my professors, advisors, and mentors reinforced this complacency.
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it’s great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there’s tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well.
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I’ve spent so many years talking about lame ducks in the White House and Congress, and it’s never occurred to me to find out what the heck it means. It turns out it’s an old English hunting term – something about firing at a duck without quite killing it. In any case, the hobbled duck limps on, at a distinct disadvantage.
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Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
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My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on Albemarle Road near East 17th Street in Brooklyn. I ran back, back for a ball, and it fell in my hands. I didn’t even see it. Everyone congratulated me on the catch, and I never told them how it really happened.
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I was never one of those people who thought, ‘What I really want to do is direct.’ It never occurred to me.
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It never would have occurred to me in ‘Days of Future Past’ to cast Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask, and yet as soon as he got onscreen I couldn’t think of anyone else.
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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
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I never knew before getting involved with these investigations that so much of this activity was going on. I mean, obviously there are chat rooms, social networking sites, and it occurs. I just didn’t ever think it occurred at this level.
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Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor‘s right to live has been challenged and denied.
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Unfortunately, I haven‘t thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized – and it’s really stupid – is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn’t occurred to me.
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Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
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It never occurred to me that being a stunt girl would get me recognized in any way, because the whole purpose of a stunt person is to not be known.
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At one point it occurred to me that the title could make a more significant contribution to the storytelling process. It could act as a prologue.
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What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking ‘That is just something that occurred to me… there’s something wrong with me’, is in fact stuff that is universal.
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I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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Patronage is a very old phenomenon that’s occurred in people and in society for thousands of years. It stems from an emotional response to someone’s art. It’s a feeling of responsibility and importance and a desire to be a part of what they’re making.
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What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith‘s revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Silicon Valley is actually a prime target for an ICBM missile strike. It occurred to me as I has touring Apple Park that if I was concerned about Americans’ safety and the symbol of America’s future I would think that those is Silicon Valley as the most vulnerable. That’s where you would be attacking the future economy.
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I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn’t do.
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The reason for natural selection‘s great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.
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I had the most incredible time on ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ It never occurred to me when I took it on that I would physically not be able to do it because that’s not in an Olympic competitor‘s vocabulary! It was the most wonderful environment, such a nurturing environment.
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I didn’t know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
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If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I’d send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
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The Solyndra scandal occurred because of people with money who have influence and power.
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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species – often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus – occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
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The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally have occurred had it never existed nor even been thought of at all.
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This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years.
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When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn’t do it.
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It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that’s nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.
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As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn’t occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
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It never occurred to me that I’m intimidating.
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I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.
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Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other – the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
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We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what’s occurred is if you have a job in this country, you’re in stocks.
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Even for people who live in the country, there is a trepidation now about going outside to play. But it never occurred to us to be fearful when we were young.
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The arguments over the limits that may be put on individuals suspected of sympathising with the enemy have occurred over the centuries. Habeas corpus was suspended during the Napoleonic wars, and Defence Regulation 18b was applied during the Second World War.
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It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don’t know if I can do this.
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During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.
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So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.
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The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.
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Both cyber and old-fashioned human-intelligence industrial espionage has occurred for decades without any significant retribution by the United States.
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It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day – a letter from Indiana.
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While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.
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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred – that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?
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I’m astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.
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It occurred to me that cats were being held back a little bit. I thought, ‘I’ll give the cat human thoughts and feelings but not be apologetic for it. That would be very catlike.’
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It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there’s no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can’t think of an exception to that.
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I would never blame an actor for taking on a role. The only time that I think I have to question why someone’s doing something is when they’re either mocking or trivializing the events that occurred or making it more sensational than it was.
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I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.
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A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations – paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on – came to Europe via the Silk Road.
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I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I’d even write a book, not ever having aspired to be a writer. It’s something that never occurred to me – a bit like it never occurred to me to play guitar when I was young. I just thought it was out of my league.
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When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.
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One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon.
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What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.
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Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.
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If strong economic conditions can partially reverse supply-side damage after it has occurred, then policymakers may want to aim at being more accommodative during recoveries than would be called for under the traditional view that supply is largely independent of demand.
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We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice – shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.
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I’ve been very fortunate, but it also never occurred to me that I couldn’t do something or that I couldn’t ask if I could try something.
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Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
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A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
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The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.
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If there are similarities, it’s simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I’d be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
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All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
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It had never occurred to me that my colour – or lack of it – was an issue for some people, but then I moved to Sydney, and apparently it was. People look at me and don’t see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. Thankfully, my mother raised me well in knowing where I come from and who I am, and I’m proud of that.
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Throughout my first year in office, some of my most informative conversations have occurred at public, community-focused events like our town halls.
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It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.
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Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we’re not obliged to make assessments of what’s going on now and deal with these current events.
