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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
People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.
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Through their 'Making a Difference' franchise, I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.
- Prosperity
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
- Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.
- Romantic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in the world, major owners of companies, are dyslexic. We just see things differently, so that's an advantage. I just learn a different way; there's nothing bad about it.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
- Fuss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.
- Nov 07, 2020