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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 detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.
- Cheering
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're out there in the octagon and you've got thousands of people, millions across the world, either cheering for you to win or cheering for you to get knocked out, the adrenaline is going, so it doesn't hurt while you're out there. Now fast forward to about an hour and a half to two hours after the fight? Oh yes. It's pretty painful.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
- Beard
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world terror, paranoia, and bipolar disorder. That's about 2 percent of the population; roughly what the guy with the beard running on the Libertarian Party ticket gets when he runs for Congress.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the LeBrons and A-Rods of the world, anointed as special from pre-K, Matt Leinart exudes an approachability rarely seen in superstars. It's why kids on the autograph line chat him up like a buddy with whom they could stay up late playing Xbox.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, I got some criticism from other gay writers and queer theorists for being too 'assimilationist,' probably because my characters are outsiders, even in the gay world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do a lead in a series, you're kind of in a bubble of self-containment and almost not really present in the world at all. You're really a brand more than a human being.
- Finances
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world without an Ex-Im Bank, which finances just 2 percent of U.S. exports, private firms would provide the insurance and credit these companies need, but at market rates that reflect risk of default.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has the potential to lead the world in energy production and, in the process, to create millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in output - generating considerable tax revenue.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020