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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.
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With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not one part of me that wants to go crazy and do anything out of the ordinary, but it would be nice to do something and not have it spread all over the place. But that's the world we live in now, and you either have to accept it or figure it out - or become a villain, I guess.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You watch the great quarterbacks like Peyton Manning and Drew Brees and Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers. They all play so fast, but it's under control because they know what the defense is presenting to them before it happens. It allows them to anticipate things a little quicker, and that makes all the difference in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a bigger level, 9/11 was a crystallizing moment for my generation... the bubble popped. We were like, 'Whoa, this is what the real world is like; it's not all fun and games.'
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Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will. Be grateful.
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