- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020