- Chair
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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
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That's not the end of the world.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be in the woods is a special thing. And also just the concept of wilderness as a necessary opposite in a kind of global dialectic. I want there to be wilderness where there are no humans in a world like this. So nature is super important.
- Coke
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't into chimpanzees or gorillas because I kinda felt like they were the Coke and Pepsi of the primate world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved cuneiform; I've always loved the way it looks. I love that it's the world's oldest script. And the creative potential of bad translation or misunderstanding or something has always been at the core of the idea of 'Dirty Projectors.' So the cuneiform is pretty playful - basically, just a joke.
- Dirty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Dirty Projectors album is a world unto itself.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A World Cup would only be a true experience if I were wearing the Brazilian shirt. Otherwise, it would just be like playing for a club.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020