World Quotes
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Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world which he received at a certain hour.
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I put more pressure on myself than anybody in this world.
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My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade away for my eyes restores me as a complete image for the unreal eye to which I deny all images. A complete image with reference to a world devoid of image which imagines me in the absence of any imaginable figure. The being of a nonbeing of which I am the infinitely small negation which it instigates as its profound harmony. In the night shall I become the universe?
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As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.
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People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.
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You know, I believe things happen when the time comes. I have worked hard and lovingly and this is a lifetime's reward. I cannot be anything but grateful. Discovering the world, different cultures and people -- I feel like a newborn child. To be able to share my feelings through music is simply wonderful.
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I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world. They made me America's Number one Pin Up.
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The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.
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The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.
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A decent world is built upon small acts of kindness.
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You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you start to forget about cars and jobs and families and weather and politicians - and all the things that make up a society.
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I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.
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In a perfect world, I don't think any man should slap anyone.
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A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.
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We live in a world that fosters distraction, hysteria and a manic addiction to inputs. We are a culture of checkers. We check our phones, we check our feeds, we check our follows. We check the headlines. Always input. Always checking. Always someone else’s agenda. And we suck it in like we can’t get enough. Because we can’t.
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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
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The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined.
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We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum programme is to carry China forward to socialism and communism. Both the name of our Party and our Marxist world world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme ideal of the future, a future of incomparable brightness and splendor.
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There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.
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In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.
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The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
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I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.
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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.
