- Job
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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
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
- Hidden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
For much of the final decade of the 20th century, one story regularly dominated the news across much of the developed world. It was the unravelling of the marriage between the heir to the British throne and his beautiful, charismatic princess, Diana.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rod and I are living a very charmed and fortunate life, and I wouldn't change it for the world.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone and call anybody to put myself out there. I don't live my life anymore that way.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020