Sean M. Carroll Quotes

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

Sean M. Carroll

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • World
  • Man
  • Me

• Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • World
  • Good
  • Together

• If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Politics
  • Show

• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Job
  • Myself

• I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Future
  • City

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Done
  • Humanity

• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Business
  • City

• Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • World
  • End

• A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Smile

• Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • World
  • Country
  • Slavery

• What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • World
  • Peace
  • Child

• Being a dancer I've got the idea that through discipline and hard work, you can develop the ability to be in a different dimension within seconds. You can be vomiting, you can detest who you are, detest the world, detest every single thing, and the next moment you are in the light and you glow. You forget everything, and you are just flying. When you're onstage, you are someone else. Beyoncé is very conscious of this. She said to me, "I'm another person when I'm onstage." And I said, "Oh yes, you are! You are an animal when you are onstage. You are a stage animal."

  

  Thierry Mugler
  • World
  • Different
  • Moments

• I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Girl
  • Goal

• My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

  

  Lincoln Steffens
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Serious

• At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.

  

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
  • Language
  • Silence

• The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • World
  • Magic