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World Quotes


"I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist."


"The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity."


"I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world."


"The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."


"And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code."


"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."


"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."


"The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor."


"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."


"The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission."


"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."


"The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not."


"In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to."


"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet."


"We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping."


"We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange."


"The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem."


"Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world."


"It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me."


"I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you."


"I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it."


"For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place."


"I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces."


"Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?"


"We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice."


"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."


"There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime."


"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"


"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."


"Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically."


"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
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