- Believe
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
- Nov 07, 2020
I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020