World Quotes
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In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
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People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
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The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.
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We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
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Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
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In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.
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I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself; we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.
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Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.
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Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.
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But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.
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Knowing that you're not alone really does make all the difference in the world.
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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Boys and girls, have confidence in the direction and counsel and advice of your parents and grandparents who love you more than anybody else in the world does.
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I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world. On the one hand, we're all equal; on the other hand, everyone's a superstar. It's all very irrational, like all ideology.
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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
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I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.
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The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
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I do enjoy battling with Valentino. It doesn't get any better than him and it just feels good to know he's the world champion and it just brings out the best in people to be right there and fighting with him.
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Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.
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The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.
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I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
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I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.
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All the historic precedents, the soaring graphs, the staggering statistics-these measure size more than substance. And the largeness and greatness of our nation would be almost a mockery-without a matching greatness of heart and largeness of vision as we look out upon the world.
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When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
