World Quotes
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I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not to define and recreate exactly what's going on.
Abi Morgan -
The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.
Alan Weisman
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Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.
Virginia Woolf -
To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
Jose Saramago -
The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.
David Deming -
The idea of fame is repulsive, I want to save the world.
Eleanor Antin -
Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.
Ziggy Marley -
As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.
Mark Helprin -
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
Thomas A. Edison -
I think my inner child wants to take over the world.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
A silent tsunami which knows no borders is sweeping the world.
Josette Sheeran -
If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment.
Johnny Christ
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If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.
Vladimir Putin -
If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.
Ben Mendelsohn -
So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!
CeeLo Green -
Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
Al-Waleed bin Talal -
I collect candy packaging from around the world and believe it has the value of Pop Art.
Dylan Lauren -
The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency - the karma of ice is to be cold, the karma of fire is to burn, the karma of the trees is to grow and bear fruit. In the same way, a human has a certain thrust. What I've realized is that my thrust is to be in the world, like in the world of business.
Karan Bajaj
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I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this is a series that I definitely would watch. And some episodes are better than others.
Joe Flanigan -
I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.
John McAfee -
The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
William Goldman -
Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield