- Hate
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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
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to be a comedian but then also winning Oscars and directing movies and creating my own charities and saving the world. The more I've let go of that... I see more access to possibly being able to have something like that.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attention from the fashion world is something that I didn't expect. I've shot with Bruce Weber and met Karl Lagerfeld. Having that kind of attention is really exciting.
- Ideal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.
- Favorite Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020