World Quotes
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I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.
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I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.
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I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.
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I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.
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It becomes harder and harder to say where the world stops and the person begins.
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Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.
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I've been pretty damn happy since 2001. More apparent danger than real danger for me, and even the apparent danger hasn't kept me from feeling warm, safe and loved. I've found love and a partner to raise three children that I'm glad to have brought into this beautiful world.
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Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.
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I never loved the world around me as it was.
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In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am neither a Mahatma nor a Mahapurush, neither a Sadhu nor a Saint, neither a Yogi nor a Wali. I am the ancient One. The Highest of the High!
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I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.
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The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very exciting time - a pioneering, rule-breaking time, especially for the young.
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In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.
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Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.
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Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
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In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].
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I think we could stack up. I don't know how it would be to have the whole world looking over your shoulder.
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There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.
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Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.
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I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
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When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
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Socrates... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.
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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
