Victor Pinchuk Quotes

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

Victor Pinchuk

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• Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • World
  • Today
  • Earth

• The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Mobile Phones

• Through a painting we can see the whole world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Value
  • Gold

• It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Dream
  • Designer
  • Lifelong

• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • World
  • More

• Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Think
  • Woman

• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

  

  Dan Malloy
  • World
  • Never
  • Take

• The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Past
  • Question

• We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • World
  • Live
  • Free

• I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Want
  • Stereotype
  • Naive

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • World
  • Guy
  • Dad

• Use your words to lift and inspire. You may just change someone's world.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • World
  • Words
  • Change

• People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story. Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • World
  • Character
  • Nature

• I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Citizen
  • Ukraine