- 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
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every company has its own texture, vocabulary, and singular place in dance history, and I have always wanted to share my perspective of these world renowned institutions.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one who goes to a lot of fashion shows or tries to infiltrate that world, really.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many dancers are content with the repertoire they're given. Others are dissatisfied but don't know why. Then there are a few like me that are curious and grab at everything. Can that curiosity thrive in the ballet world, or should it exist elsewhere? That's the eternal question.
- Conversational
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to really get in shape and get strong, there's these things called 'sleds.' You take a weighted sled, and you just push it across the floor, and then you drag it back. And, basically, if you do that for 20 minutes a day, you'll look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you put enough weight on it, it's the hardest thing in the world.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
- Drought
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates international headlines, but children in Niger suffering from drought and children in Britain suffering from leukaemia go unnoticed.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world. People respond to a certain down-to-earthness that I have, and that's purely as a result of coming from Birmingham.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We’ve got an outstanding justice system. Our judiciary are respected around the world. It is a key part of what we are as a country. It’s an area where there is a strong political consensus behind that and perhaps in an era of populism it’s important that we preserve those qualities.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020