- City
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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
- Climb
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- Nov 07, 2020
The top climbers in the world had attempted this climb and couldn't do it. That history is what makes Meru special.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to show the world that you can go beyond your thoughts, you can break more than you think you can break.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the offseason I allow my body to recover, my mind to recover. I like to be with my family, to read books, and know what is going on in the world, to understand how people think.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that everyone in this world should be confident in who they are and believe in themselves no matter what.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my work, but I do not think that I am saving the world... I am a Valley Girl.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
- Nov 07, 2020