- Me
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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.
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- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Boozman has been traveling the world, making 129 visits to 53 countries during his time in Washington, and ignoring the real problems hardworking Arkansans are facing every single day. That is unacceptable.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always look for stories that really try to tell the world that I see, a world that values and is full, in fact, of stories that are important.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative world where elevator inspectors are important, so you have to establish rules, and part of that is, How do people talk? How do they behave?
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020