- Music
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
People assume that we have certain rights based on property that may be different now in a digital world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this constantly evolving world, Congress must be a good steward of policy to ensure our laws at least keep pace.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.
- Futuristic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
- Anywhere Else
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020