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World Quotes
"The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world."
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"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."
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"The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world."
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"You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room."
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"There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones."
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"I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member."
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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
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"The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."
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"The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain."
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"And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?"
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"We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange."
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"I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this is a series that I definitely would watch. And some episodes are better than others."
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"There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime."
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"It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world."
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"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
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"Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world."
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"The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem."
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"The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission."
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"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."
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"In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to."
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"From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today."
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"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."
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"Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma."
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"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize."
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"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."
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"Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next."
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"I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces."
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"I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original."
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"For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place."
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"We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice."
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"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting."
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"We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills."
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