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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn't see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn't want us to see.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at climate change. That's a bigger problem than plastic, but we can't all focus on that and forget about plastic - that isn't how the world works. We can divide our attention across different things, using clean-up to strengthen prevention.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no better feeling than having an idea and seeing it become reality, emerging in the physical world.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truly, the only way to prove that we can rid the oceans of plastic is to actually go out there and deploy the world's first ocean-cleaning system.
- Appreciation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.
- Eclipse
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
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- Nov 07, 2020