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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'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe - till something radical changes that we are not on track to do - that hybrids are material to climate change. They're fashionable, everybody loves them, the Prius is selling well, but so are Gucci bags. But they don't impact the way the world carries stuff. You know it's a fashion statement.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a very complex world.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what you do, any country in the world is going to have the ability to set its own rules internally. Any country in the world can pull the plug. It's not a question of technical issues, it's not a question of right or wrong, it's not a question of whether global Internet governance is right or wrong. It's just with us.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020