- Estonia
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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
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That's what I aim to do in Rio - my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can't get too complacent. I can't relax; I can't be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.
- Free World
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people really don't want ads, they can go find their information however it is they want. It's a free world on that matter.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
- Compatibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit' and 'Breath and Bone,' because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain - which has been overdone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no restaurant anywhere in the world where I have been that I haven't been able to find something to eat.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my films have changed my life. I've met so many people and broadened my world view.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing a woman in the tech world never crossed my mind as a thing until people started bringing it up all time. People act like it's unicorns speaking English all of a sudden.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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- Nov 07, 2020