World Quotes
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I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'
Joan Jett
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The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.
Joshua Foer
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There are no problems that can’t be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can’t solve the #problem, it’s because you haven’t found the right option ... But the answer is always there.
will.i.am
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There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo.
Noel Fielding
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This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
Gerald Massey
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When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.
William Stafford
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Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.
M.I.A.
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The world in which you paint a picture in your mind, a picture which shows things different from what your eyes sees, that is the world from which I get my visions. I tell you this is the real world.
Archie Fire Lame Deer
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Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.
Sarah Fielding
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
J. G. Holland
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It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
William Graham Sumner
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I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
Vivienne Westwood
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A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.
Stephen Dunn
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We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
James M. Barrie
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London street style is the best in the world. Fact.
Alexa Chung
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I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
Peter Drucker
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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
Joyce Carol Oates
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If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born
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Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
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In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.
Edwidge Danticat
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We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.
Jeanne Shaheen
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Just that. It is hard in the radiance of this world to live but we live.
Campbell McGrath
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Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
Will Self