- Me
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- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.
- Nov 07, 2020
Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Chinese Democracy' wasn't trying to tell China to have a democracy or anything like that. I don't have an opinion on what kind of government they should have. My thing is, I went to stay there for about three months, and everywhere I went, the people are so shielded from what's going on in the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020