World Quotes
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China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale substantial contraction of U.S. manufacturing employment.
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When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.
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Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.
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And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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I supported Obama because of his relationships. A lot of the things he believes in, you would say that it's not in the best interest for someone in my tax bracket, but it's not about that. It's about him making the world better and making it equal and even all around, and that's what I'm supporting when I supported Obama.
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Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.
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The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn't be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don't owe anyone an explanation.
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My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
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We can't get into a situation of bargaining with terrorists because this would put many more people's lives at risk, not only in Iraq but around the world.
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There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.
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We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
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The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
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The world was always going to be remade by people who were too busy to remake themselves first and who left the world twice as miserable as before.
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Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
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From the winter of 1821, when I first read Bentham, and especially from the commencement of the Westminster Review, I had what might truly be called an object in life; to be a reformer of the world. My conception of my own happiness was entirely identified with this object.
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I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
