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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
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a diverse and democratic world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.
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- Nov 07, 2020