- Another Time
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020