World Quotes
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Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
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Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.
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In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.
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I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.
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I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
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... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh, prickly relations with his opponent that were characteristic of all Botvinnik's matches.
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Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.
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Racism is very prevalent and alive... in this country and in this world.
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There is so much else in the world that is more interesting than monarchy.
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Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.
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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.
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Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things.
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Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
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Physically, looking through a giant ground glass and seeing how the world looks is amazing. When composing a shot, I see a combination of the real facts of my subject and the camera's transformation of their image at the same time.
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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
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Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
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The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole? Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself... Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.
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The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.
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When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not alone, that somebody has hurt before. It works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. When you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. So you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.
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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
