- Forever
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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
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want to act, I say get in class. Every kind of class. Put as many tools in that tool belt, because once you get out there, the real world doesn't sugarcoat much!
- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
- Beautiful Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you progress as a basketball player, the world around you becomes more and more chaotic. There's more talent, there are more distractions - and these are all factors that create a lack of control. By having a routine, by having habits that I can fall back on, it's my way of enacting control. It's the only thing I can control.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want your kids to grow up in a world that's better than the one you grew up in. I'm not talking about my own family's wealth. I'm talking about the actual world and all the issues that we have.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020