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World Quotes
"I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front."
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"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."
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"For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world."
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"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."
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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
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"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."
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"Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual."
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"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
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"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."
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"But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it."
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"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."
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"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."
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"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."
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"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."
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"Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world."
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"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
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"You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world."
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"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
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"The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative."
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"The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop."
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"I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one."
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"It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it."
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"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."
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"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."
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"There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of."
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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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"The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual."
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"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
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"San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate."
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"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned."
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"What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?"
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
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"I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away."
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"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."
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"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."
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"Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things."
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"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 is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."
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