- 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
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think comics are really - superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they're about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that's not to say all stories should be happy.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am honoured to be appointed as the first chief executive of UKRI. My ambition is to make UKRI the world's leading research and innovation public funding agency.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.K. is fortunate in its geographical position. We're an island. But we are living in a completely interconnected world where disruptions in countries far away will have major impacts.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're learning how infections are travelling around the world and, sadly, how cholera in Haiti was brought in by U.N. peacekeeping forces from south Asia.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Twilight' was about a naive person who knew nothing of a certain world, basically discovering that this world existed and totally being indoctrinated into it and falling in love with a vampire, which is interesting.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020