World Quotes
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In September 2008 - as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world's biggest insurance company, accepted a federal bailout - Senator John McCain of Arizona, in what was widely viewed as a political move, suspended his presidential campaign and called on Obama to rush back to Washington for a bipartisan meeting at the White House.
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I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.
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The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.
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Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.
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We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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I immediately adored performing. It really empowers you when everyone's laughing. It gives you an immense buzz. You just feel on top of the world.
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What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.
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You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
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Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty - he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world - alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
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A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.
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We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.
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The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
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The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.
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There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.
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Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
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There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want
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I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.
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Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
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As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.
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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.
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True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
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I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.
