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World Quotes


"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."



"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."



"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more."


"You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe."


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


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


"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."


"To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world."


"Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us."


"Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small."


"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."



"As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much."


"There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better."


"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."



"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."


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



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


"I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world."


"I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it."


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


"I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world."


"I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you."


"In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels."


"The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen."


"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."


"I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world."



"In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world."



"No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat."



"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."


"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've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."


"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
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