Bill Courtney Quotes
Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
Bill Courtney
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
Dan Pink
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When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
Naoto Kan
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann
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Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
A.J. Styles
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
Haile Selassie
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When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
Salman Rushdie
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
Patricia Highsmith
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We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
Irvin D. Yalom
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What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
Fidel Castro
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Here was my city, immense, overpowering, flooded with energy and light... The world, at that moment , opened before me, challenging me, beckoning me, demanding something of me that it would take more than a lifetime to give, but raising all my energies by its own vivid promise to a higher pitch.
Lewis Mumford
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In a mad world, only the mad are sane!
Akira Kurosawa
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We need to do everything we can to protect the health and welfare of children around the world, but fortunately, it's getting easier to provide things like medication and care.
Alek Wek
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Truly, the world was a comedy of errors, and she was the butt of the joke.
Carole Nelson Douglas
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I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.
Jeremy Paxman
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Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
Dana Rohrabacher
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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.
Hannah Arendt
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There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.
Samuel Schmid
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Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
Bill Courtney
