- Little
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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
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
- Deep Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little kid, I was a huge fan of 'The Kids in the Hall.' They were like my boy band. I was obsessed with sketch comedy. Being raised Christian, I was somewhat sheltered from the more radical high-art world. So to me, comedy was where people got to express themselves in an abstract way. It was a big part of my growing up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't exclusively talk to people on social media; I don't meet people through Tinder. I try to keep it face-to-face, and to be aware if my phone is sucking me away from the rest of the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.' They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming out of college, back to New York, where I didn't really know that many people, I thought our world was very atomized.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.
- Formulation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements of science insofar as it permits a division of the world into subject and object (observer and observed) and, hence, a clear formulation of the law of causality.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world.
- College Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started Teach For America as a college senior, I sensed that there were thousands of talented, driven college students and recent grads who were searching for a way to make a real difference in the world.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020