- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars', but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look around, I see a world of unrealized opportunities for improvements, an abundance of talented people able to take the risks necessary to make improvements, but a shortage of people and investors willing to take those risks.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
When all is said and done, you're either for investment and risk taking as a solution for what ails the economy, or you're against it. The real world offers no middle ground.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
- Each Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't ever in your life do a World Cup and the Olympic Games at the same time. This will make your life almost impossible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020