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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
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a grandfather now, and when I watch children's shows with my two-year-old grandson, Arlo, I'm delighted because it's completely non-traditional casting. It feels like a utopia. How the world should be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can watch TV and see experts of all different colours and hues. But the minute you get past nine o'clock and you're in primetime drama land, it's like entering another world, one that doesn't reflect the diversity of the society that we have in Britain in 2016.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enthusiasm moves the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.
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- Nov 07, 2020