- Connected
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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
- Crumble
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
- Being Honest
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- Nov 07, 2020
A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
- Nov 07, 2020
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came up in the wrestling business, there was a movie called 'The California Dolls' about a female tag team - girls who are struggling trying to make it in the wrestling world. I started out in a tag team, and my name was Britani Knight, and my dad named us after The California Dolls. We were called The Norfolk Dolls.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have traveled the world by myself.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started traveling around the world by myself by the time I got to 14. I worked really hard because I knew what my goal was, which was to be in WWE.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020