World Quotes
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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
Louise Brooks
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The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.
Bubba Sparxxx
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My fashion cues come from my work, not the ramps of the world. I just keep working with so much colour, texture and structure, it rubs off!
Twinkle Khanna
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About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.
Charles M. Schwab
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I think New Yorkers are some of the friendliest people in the world, but it just comes out in a different way. In a way where they're swearing at you.
Ellie Kemper
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But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
Umberto Eco
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The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
Katharine Hepburn
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Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all–embracing and universal.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!
C. Everett Koop
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Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.
Leila Janah
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The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.
Marianne Williamson
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After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.
H. L. Mencken
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In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.
Katherine Dunn
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Every decade or so, the world is tested by a crisis so grave that it breaks the mould: one so horrific and inhumane that the response of politicians to it becomes emblematic of their generation -their moral leadership or cowardice, their resolution or incompetence. It is how history judges us.
Jo Cox
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I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.
Thomas Kinkade
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I've shot all over the world with crews from all over the world. The work ethic is the same. Bollywood is my career; it's what I do.
Priyanka Chopra
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The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
F. R. Scott
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I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.
Eileen Ford
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Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.
Kevin Richardson
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Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.
Jerry Saltz
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So the world needs other engines to carry the growth process. And in a slow down environment in the world, an economy which can grow at 8-9% like India certainly has viable shoulders to provide the support to the global economy
Arun Jaitley
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Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
John Howard
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If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is 4 600 000 000 years old. It could end in an afternoon.
Arundhati Roy