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World Quotes


"I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook."



"At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world."


"All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market."


"If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian."


"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."


"It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become."


"I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it."


"I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images."


"All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world."


"Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001."


"We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done."


"We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis."


"The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!"


"The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself."


"The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows."


"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."


"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."


"Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world."


"The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined."


"Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward."


"Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world."


"It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world."


"Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet."


"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."


"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."


"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy."


"There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more."


"I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."


"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."


"And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world."


"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."



"It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me."


"That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond."


"Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do."


"I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it."


"Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword."


"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."


"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world."
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