- Me
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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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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could do another tour, make a record that's very similar, do similar venues. Or I could make a different record, do different venues, and grow. It's exciting to take it to new places, but it's never been my intent to be the biggest thing in the world. That's not what my drive is. I want to make what I want to make, and make a living off it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess what? One day, all these people that you love are going to die, from DJ Mehdi to DJ Dusk to J Dilla to Austin Peralta to DJ Rashad.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never leave L.A. for too long. I'm not one of those that go on a tour of the whole world. I probably should be, but I'm not.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who's always trying to figure out why he is doing music and trying to understand and make sense of his instrument in a world which deals with rigid instruction.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020