Nellie McClung Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama -
We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
Barack Obama -
If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
Leighton Paul Walsh -
There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
Aaron Sorkin -
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
A. S. Byatt -
St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
Valentina Matviyenko -
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. Eugene Smith -
Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
Garry Shandling -
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
Dan Chaon -
If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
Ingmar Bergman
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
Parker Posey -
Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
J. G. Ballard -
Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.
Abigail Disney -
I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.
Yoko Ono -
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
Ralph Merkle -
But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I won the John Mackey Award, so I did something right.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins -
If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am.
Frank Abagnale -
In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.
Kevin Spacey -
I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.
Geoff Dyer -
If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.
Ian Macfarlane -
I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
Nellie McClung