- Health
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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
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce.
- Mess
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- Nov 07, 2020
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
- Equal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world invited me many places.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020