Katie Salen Quotes
Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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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.
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
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It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.
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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.
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Music will save the world.
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I think both sides China and United States should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.
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The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.
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As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite - for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
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To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
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When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
