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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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I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.
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If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.
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We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.
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Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.
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The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.
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I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.
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Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.
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We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.
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When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.
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We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
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My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.
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But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.
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The skiing center of the world is southeastern Indiana, where I like to call home. It looks like the Alps there; it's crazy.
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I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created.
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Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
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I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.
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