- Me
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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
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the people who live the lives of 'Crazy Rich Asians' don't see the humour of their lives simply because this is just who they are. Even though I'm from that part of the world, I'm no longer part of that world.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.
- Elbows
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020