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World Quotes
"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."
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"Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace."
40
"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."
40
"If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation."
40
"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
40
"Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad."
40
"I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks."
40
"We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it."
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"There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited."
39
"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
39
"It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?"
39
"Half the world does not know how the other half lives."
39
"The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it."
39
"We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors."
39
"When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low."
39
"On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world."
39
"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
39
"I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me."
39
"We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam."
39
"For economist the real world is often a special case."
39
"The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies."
39
"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks."
39
"There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is."
38
"San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate."
38
"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned."
38
"Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia."
38
"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
38
"What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?"
38
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian."
38
"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."
38
"The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop."
38
"I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy."
38
"I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts."
38
"The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing."
38
"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."
38
"In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us."
38
"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."
37
"The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago."
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