- Blocks
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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
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bad customer for my own buildings! If I'm choosing an apartment, I choose one about five or six stories high so that I can see the people, the trees, and the world on the street. Beyond that, I lose contact with the ground!
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe that architects should be imposing their style or their plans on every city in the world.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.
- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up reading - and loving - stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her stories helped shape my own internal world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020