World Quotes
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The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.
Marianne Williamson
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‘They’ll be in all our houses,’ I said, ‘blackies of all colours, before the century’s over. The new world belongs to Asia.
Anthony Burgess
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If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.
George Cukor
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Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
William Goldman
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In the world there are four greats, and the king is one of them.
Lao Tzu
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I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid.
Jamie Bell
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I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.
Jens Lekman
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Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.
Socrates
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Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
Dee Rees
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I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.
John Lasseter
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The world that went to pieces at the end of the 1980's was the world shaped by the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Eric Hobsbawm
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I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.
Aubrey Plaza
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When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.
Austin Grossman
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The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Lotte Lehmann
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The whole world is out of step, apart from me.
Mark Thomas
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You know sometimes I sit and wonderJust how this world would beIf we had all the people laughingAnd everybody living in harmony.We'd have to say se la se la.Talking to the people se la, se la.
Lionel Richie
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Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
Stanley Hauerwas
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If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.
William Kristol
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You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.
Jane Hirshfield
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That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.
Eliphas Levi
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In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.
Lin Biao
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They're my best friends. We think of Gigi as the brains in the family - something most of the world doesn't know - and my favorite thing about Bella is that she's a free spirit who never lets anyone set limits for her. They can be really protective, but they've taught me not to let other people define what I'm capable of.
Anwar Hadid
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I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
Sarah Dessen
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Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.
Eric Gill