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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Muhammad Ali meant everything to me. He inspired me to box after watching re-runs of him winning a gold medal in the Olympics and being a world champion.
- Commonwealth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be the European, Olympic, Commonwealth and world champion. I want the full set.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books. Yes, you can just type something into Google, but if you read and interact, you'll have a deeper understanding of the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
High-end divorce is a closed world. When I tried to research it, I was really surprised about how little there is out there. I think that's because of the nature of the subject matter - privacy is incredibly important to this level of client.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.
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- Nov 07, 2020