- Look
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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
- Black Or White
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- Nov 07, 2020
As time goes by, we're getting more accepting of the differences between one another - whether it's gay or transgender, whether it's black or white - but there's still a lot of people in the world who don't feel that they can express themselves as they want.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not conscious of being a revolutionary. This is my life, looking through my glasses at my little world, but this world seems to be full of people who understand it.
- Contemporary World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It just proves that everybody likes what I'm doing. But at the same time, I feel like it's important to just chill and experience things and really make the songs true to me.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for companies that have found new homes in bankruptcy court.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020