- Dangerous
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a small, old-school Catholic world, imprinted with an above-average number of categories and judgments.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
From casting to hiring to awards races like the Emmys, taking active steps toward inclusion will make for richer stories, a stronger democracy, and a better world.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.
- Energy Bill
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- Nov 07, 2020
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
ISIS is a terrorist organization. It is a terrorist organization that the world must unite against.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations around the world - including Canada - are working to shift the global economy from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy. We must be vigilant in working to accelerate this transition, not slow or reverse it.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
- Nov 07, 2020