World Quotes
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The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
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I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
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I think we all achieve a little. You can say, 'That's relative.' But when you think of world events, it really is very small.
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The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.
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If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!
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If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me.
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Keep spreading the love, world. But don't get greedy and overpopulate the planet.
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If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
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Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
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Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
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It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.
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And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.
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My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?
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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.
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Nowadays I imagine people find freer and more accepting venues in blogs, on Tumblr and Instagram and Facebook, in the riot of shouting that trails in the wake of every news story. So there's always the pandemonium of the Internet, if you need to get your lunatic opinions out in public. I find most of that stuff a little insane-making and my preference is to encounter personal essays in the relatively sedate and stable universe of print, in literary quarterlies, magazines and books. But I'm sure you can find plenty of good stuff in lonely outposts all across the World Wide Web.
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I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.
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There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
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Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
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A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.
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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
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I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
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I feel like loyalty is such a rare quality in this world, particularly the entertainment world.
