World Quotes
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China has been on a historic commodities binge as it doubled the size of its economy in recent years to become one of the world's largest. Even so, those fundamentals begat - as they have so often throughout human history - a feeding frenzy.
Kelly Evans
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How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?
Joseph Heller
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My time is being shared with my fans and the people of the world, while I have got children growing with a lot of days of not seeing their father.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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I try to have as much fun as I can, and I travel around the world doing what I love.
Red Gerard
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A serious ape whom none take seriously,Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nutsBy hard buffoonery.
George Eliot
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I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.
William Thomas Beckford
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The fashion world tells me how much they love my work, but they don't hire me very often. Tom Ford did, and he hated it. Naturally, he wanted to Photoshop away the imperfections, which is perfectly understandable. They want their vision.
Marilyn Minter
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And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O Let them be left, wildness and wet: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Bill Gates
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But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.
Alphonso Jackson
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It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.
Buddy Rice
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There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.
Raph Koster
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One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.
Lee Radziwill
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When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.
Charles Baxter
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Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.
Curtis White
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The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes.
T.R. Reid
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I am the luckiest girl in the world. I learned that if I just keep a positive mental attitude, that I can go out there and do whatever I hope I can do. It's all mental in getting out there, and having confidence in myself, and having strength and knowing I can do it.
Missy Franklin
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As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.
Vladimir Lenin
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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
Bono U2
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I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.
Wilma Rudolph
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If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.
Ernst Haas
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In the world of digital currencies, the social network around open source projects has become a critical test bed for ideas, products, services, and early users.
Meltem Demirors
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I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
Vivienne Westwood