- Future
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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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.
- Free World
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.
- Few Women
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- Nov 07, 2020