- Edible
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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.
- Random
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can completely take a second World War gun apart and put it back together again thanks to 'Band Of Brothers.' That's always useful. I've got lots and lots of random skills I'll probably never need again.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of the best in the world. The city has supported music without putting on the brakes.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop, and you can listen for four hours, five hours, six hours, and then you are like in his mystical hands of his music. He's such a great poet of music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Boston Symphony is one of the best orchestras in the world and has such a great tradition - which I want to cherish, of course, and to learn from and to continue and to add whatever I can add.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
No magic wands have been waved in my direction; I didn't win some kind of lottery to land a spot at one of the biggest clubs in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
You want the world-class players playing at the World Cup, and you want them to do themselves justice.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020