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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There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.
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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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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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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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It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.
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I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.
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I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.
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How do I remain what is called 'normal'? Because for me it's the natural thing to do, and therefore easier than doing something else.
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Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
