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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
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, when formerly I had nothing, basically. So what we did with this money: we had a baby, we bought a car, and we celebrated by going to Rome, because it would be warmer and better looking.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American middle class used to be envy of the world. It was a byproduct of economic freedom. We had a very dynamic free-market economy and limited government. People were out there pursuing their own self-interest and creating employment opportunities.
- Manchester United
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no doubt: nobody can argue that Manchester United is not the biggest club in the world. It is.
- Heard
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- Nov 07, 2020
All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter to me who's the most powerful or profitable country in the world. All countries want to be prosperous. What's happening is a zero-sum game between China and the U.S., where their gain is our loss.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stem cells are being used for anti-aging, and the University of Miami is doing a study about that to prove that it is true. They are looking at me, and my markers have shown exactly that I have been actually reversing my aging and getting younger. I am taking perhaps more stem-cell treatment than anybody else in the world.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may be the only person in the world who has my own embryonic cells growing in a petri dish.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You live with your family for awhile, and then you move out into the world, and you still have your family; you just don't get to see them every night when you go home for dinner.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is access to the whole world.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was certainly a kid who believed he could make a difference in the world. I was, as a young person, cooking up plans. My hero is Billie Jean King, and the thing that I find so impressive about Billie Jean is that she took something as banal as playing tennis and used it to change the world. She really did.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that young kids have agency and can make a difference in the world.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020