- Life
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could live anywhere in the world I want. But Los Angeles is the place to live.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bush administration actually started out with an open mind towards Iran, by all indications. In fact, early in the administration, the White House tasked the various agencies of government to do an inter-agency review of Iran policy, as it did with Iraq policy and most of the big areas of the world.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
France has become the second-largest consumer of pizza per person, per pound, in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Italy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next generation of luxury consumers are much more socially conscious, and they look to invest in brands that see the world the way they do.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a multi-cultural world, so embracing diversity is important in every industry.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly believe that getting dressed in the morning is about deciding who you want to be, what you're saying in the world, and how you want people to see you. It's so much more than superficial.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020