- Men
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about... the world I live in.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rightfully given near-deity status in the early days of industrial America, the J.P. Morgans, Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts of the world not only ran our country, they were also revered - and often despised - as larger-than-life personalities who could perform feats mere mortals could only dream of.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't identify with the images in 'Elle' or 'Vogue' or 'Harper's Bazaar.' Nobody in the world we're walking around in actually looks like that.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020