- People
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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
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my colleagues have been insulated in Indian music alone - they did not think of the world beyond what they knew - but I always did and still do.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Seventies was a golden period for music, both around the world and in India.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Performing in each city is a different experience. But somehow, New York is unique. It is like performing in the entertainment capital of the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Dominion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.
- Funny Stuff
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020