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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In China, they appreciate someone who has worked hard. They say it is incredible to win seven world championships. I know it is, but it's a shame I have to go 10,000 miles to get the whole crowd behind me.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I was a kid, I'd imagine that I was making a break to win the world championship.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was into Jacques Cousteau as a kid and started scuba-diving around 14, which blew my mind. It was all colour, another world.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of the show is that SpongeBob is an innocent in a world of jaded characters. The rest is absurd packaging.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the humanity of the soldiers of Nippon. There may be a few I've missed, but not many.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.
- Atmospheric
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the world gets a lot hotter in a hurry and the primary aim is to cool it down, then the current plan of carbon mitigation will almost certainly not be effective. It'll be too little, too late, and too optimistic - in large part because the atmospheric half-life of CO2 is roughly 100 years.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?
- Once
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- Nov 07, 2020
We pass through this world but once.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you're a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them.
- Interior
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
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- Nov 07, 2020