- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
- Beautiful Girls
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- Nov 07, 2020
I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you could make something one percent smarter than a human, your artificial attorney or accountant would be better than all the attorneys or accountants out there. You would be the richest person in the world. People are chasing that.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm excited about bringing robots into the market, about having the most effect in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
- American Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020