World Quotes
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I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.
Asa Butterfield
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
Larry Hogan
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I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.
Jimmy Lai
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I want women to know all around the world that they have the power!
Amanda Ava Koci
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Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.
Carlos P. Romulo
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You have to be super focused when you're boxing. After I've done a few rounds, I feel as if I can conquer the world.
Ciara
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
Daniel Alarcon
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The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.
Michael Jackson
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To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
Burnie Burns
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Let Saigons be bygones / Don't you blow this world in two.
Kinky Friedman
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
C. K. Williams
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.
Amy Lowell
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When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
Albert Einstein
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If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.'
John McEnroe
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.
Chris Hadfield
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
Oscar Wilde
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
Val McDermid
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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
Karel Capek
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Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.
Ella Baker
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I took a shot and tried to create something world changing and it didn't work out. I gave it everything I had, literally, and now I'm just trying to manage day by day and it's been challenging but my wife and my kids are healthy, and I'm OK.
Curt Schilling
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
Gail Simmons