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World Quotes
"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
185
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
185
"China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world."
182
"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
181
"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."
178
"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."
172
"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."
159
"If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse."
158
"I feel great identification with the developing world."
152
"The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst."
151
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
148
"I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils."
146
"We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan."
144
"The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan."
141
"I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely."
137
"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
98
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
92
"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
84
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
82
"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
81
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
78
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
78
"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world."
76
"Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world."
76
"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go."
72
"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world."
72
"I won't stop caring about the world, even if it looks stupid."
72
"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."
72
"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
71
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
70
"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."
69
"Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'."
69
"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."
69
"It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising."
66
"If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again."
65
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