- Build
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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
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
As users replace usage of the web with a mobile, app-centric ecosystem, the phone becomes the center of gravity. In this mobile world, Facebook is just one app on the phone.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Facebook of 2011, the Twitter of 2011 and the Google of 2011 are all understood to be in need of reinvention for a mobile-centric world with no clear strategy to make revenue.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dave Franco, I could put him up there with the best card throwers in the world. Not the best sleight of hand, but he could take a card and fire it over there and stick it into an apple. If he kept training at it, he could definitely break a Guinness World Record - he's that good.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not here to change the world, but I do think while you're here you should have a bit of passion about life.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's just the way the world's going - everything has to be so instantly commercial that it kills anything that's a little bit underground instantly.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm in the best band in the world.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sudden collapse of the monarchy that had ruled Russia for three hundred years led to chaos. Russia immediately became, as one participant put it, 'the freest country in the world.'
- Jail
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can't quite shake.
- Exhibit
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.
- Art World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020