Elia Kazan Quotes
The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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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.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
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He who labours, prays.
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I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!
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The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
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The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
