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World Quotes


"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be."


"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."



"I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world."


"The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent."


"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."


"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."


"Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world."


"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."


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


"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."



"They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world."


"I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati."


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


"You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world."


"I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head."


"That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens."


"I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2."


"Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true."


"I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes."


"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."


"I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is."


"The detached observer's view is one window on the world."


"This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world."


"A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world."


"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."


"They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan."


"Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come."


"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."


"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."



"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."


"That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs."


"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 world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual."


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


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


"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"


"What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?"


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