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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be perfectly candid, we're better at stealing other people's secrets than anyone else in the world. But we self-limit. We steal secrets to keep our citizens free and safe.
- Business World
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is littered with the tales of small businesses in the dire straits of hiring that spent time and money they couldn't afford to hire people who couldn't perform.
- Uncle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an uncle who was heavily involved in World War 2, so over the years, I've talked to him many times.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sound preservation is not only the history of our culture and our country but also a document of life in the world. There is something with sound that is so extraordinary that it can be preserved, that we can listen to a recording made in 1925 and be transported back to that time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a couple of times where things were so extraordinary wonderful that it changed my world. One of them was when I met Ira Gershwin and started working with him. That was a game-changer for me. It changed the entire course and direction of my life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very mindful of trying to do something good in the world. When I see injustice in the world, it's very hard for me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020