- 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've spent so much of my life in what can be quite solitary professions, particularly when you're fronting television programmes. I've been all over the world doing that on my own, to be able to enjoy that in the company of someone you adore makes it five times as good.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, world travelers and successful entrepreneurs. Their hairdos and tattoos are simply part of our culture, even when they raise eyebrows during PTA meetings.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.
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- Nov 07, 2020