- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
The last thing in the world I want to do is marry. I am too selfish, but I won't elaborate on that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm terrified about the world food shortages. Vegetables could quite easily become tomorrow's currency.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our weather patterns are mercurial. What you must remember about Great Britain is we have a uniquely temperate climate not shared by any other country in Europe. We can grow plants from every country in the world. The result is 90% of the plants in our gardens are from other parts of the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time, I fought 90 fights in 90 days in 90 different places around the world. I didn't even know who I was: about 45 or 50 in, they just kept pushing me, and that's when I really get into a lot of trouble.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a lot on my shoulders, but I've got the most beautiful family in the world.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the youngest in the world in history when I started, 15. That's illegal now.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been around the world seven times, been stabbed three times, been down in an airplane, and once dated the Bearded Lady.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never let somebody come from outside the business, have their way with the business, and then leave the next day and laugh at you. How the hell does David Arquette become World Champion?
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors on stage, you can go from playing a myriad of roles, from Shakespeare to a Eugene O'Neil drama, and it's the norm. I came up in a world where you're supposed to be able to do three things very well. Act, sing, dance, paint, do something. The emphasis was on versatility.
- Heavyweight Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are viewed by the world as a quasi-racist state in which we allow natural disasters to obliterate our minority community, in which our penal system is designed to treat blacks unfairly, and in which we let the medical and educational systems in our ghettos fester to the level of some third-world countries.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration of Independence means what it says in its opening lines, that being the world's greatest nation means that we offer the world's greatest opportunities.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.
- Gone
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- Nov 07, 2020