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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
- Position
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
- Playstation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent the afternoon of Sunday 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Madrid is Madrid. There's nothing more to say. It's the biggest team in the world.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.
- Getting Dressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
They make documentaries like 'Fast Food Nation.' The food our kids are eating in schools, the vending machines kids go to a lot, the portions of food that American restaurants are serving that are bigger than anywhere else in the world - it's kind of crazy.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
NBA players, we're directly involved in the tech world whether we know it or not. Media content and wearables directly influence us every day.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.
- Shoes
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- Nov 07, 2020