- 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
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no agent, and I was getting approached by so many people that I tried to escape for a while because I couldn't believe that world. Photography is not an industry, and suddenly an industry came to me, so I sort of had to accept it in the end and get an agent.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get grumpy at a 'Strictly' level, you understand. We're just making a television show - the person I'm dancing with can't dance; they're doing their best, and we're not going to win the World Championships.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went professional with my partner, Erin Boag, 11 years ago, and we had success competing round the world, but appearing on 'Strictly' has changed my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal was to become the best dancer in the world and, because I started late, I always had this feeling I was playing catch-up, so I've been a bit of a maniac most of my life, sort of striving.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember watching the Three Tenors at the World Cup in 1990, and it was amazing. They made opera accessible to the man in the street.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020