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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it's not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle, and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Margaret Thatcher was a lady. I suppose she was a woman in a man's world, but that's about the only nice thing I have to say.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
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- Nov 07, 2020