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World Quotes


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



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


"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?"


"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned."


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



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


"What I think and what the world thinks is totally different."


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


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


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


"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."


"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."


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


"The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies."


"I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks."


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


"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."



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


"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!"



"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."


"Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses."


"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."


"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."


"There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world."


"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."


"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."



"I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself."



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


"The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago."


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


"There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said."


"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."



"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world."


"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."
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