- Politics
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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 didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.
- Nov 07, 2020
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.
- Lit
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
- Through
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
- Few
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.
- Glorify
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- Nov 07, 2020