- First World
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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.
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- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
- Expert
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.
- Filtered
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
- Expert
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our synagogues are spread all over the world, and we want people to respect them and look after them. And we have to respect the places of prayer of others.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
- Jerusalem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own view, Hamas's frustration derives from a lack of legitimization by Israel and by much of the world. It is this frustration that leads them to such destructive desperation. That's why we need to grant them status as a legitimate enemy - before we talk about an agreement or, alternatively, about a frontal war.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020