World Quotes
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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
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I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire.
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There are good reasons for not wanting to host the Olympics. The Games can be costly and, in spite of their patriotic overtones, can unintentionally expose a nation's weaknesses to the world.
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When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
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It's the wheel of the world - turning around.
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
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Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.
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We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.
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When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.
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We dedicate this day to all the heroes and heroines in this country and the rest of the world who sacrificed in many ways and surrendered their lives so that we could be free. Their dreams have become reality. Freedom is their reward.
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My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
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We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.
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I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.
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I have always thought of films as stories for the world.
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There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.
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Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.
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Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.
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Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life.
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.
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The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
