- Way
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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
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in very rural Ireland. The Internet was kind of a connection to the greater world. It had a lot of significance.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
After selling the business, and the Patrick Cox brand in 2007, I had a three-year non-compete, where I just spent a lot of time hanging all over the world on beaches and having fun.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Archives can be inspiring but overwhelming. You have to forget them - especially when the whole world has been knocking them off. Everyone shops the same flea markets.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Scandal,' but it's fun to just go into someone's world for eight days and do your thing, and then leave.
- Focal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020