#occurred

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. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#believing #convenient #fundamentally #gradually #grew

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#hatred #iraq #occurred #only #proliferate

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#another #another way #before #could #fact

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years. ↗

— James Hansen

#eight #five #last #occurred #over

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#disaster #economic #encourage #europe #felt

That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me. ↗

— Davey Havok

#appealed #article #artists #autograph #clothing

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#devastated #i #i can #job #loss

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases. ↗

— Lance Ito

#biases #camera #consideration #courtroom #effect

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. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#art #aspect #creative #creative work #does

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. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#change things #changing #enough #good #hard