- Research
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.
- Ring
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- Nov 07, 2020
You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.
- Canberra
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to go out and have fun, but I'm not all about partying, so that's a perfect place for me to get away from tennis with my friends. I think Canberra is the best place in the world.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the world and around the country and locally and puts them all in the one spot together, and that's what a lot of the world's great writers' festivals do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020