Quotes with old-world

Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 3762.

  • Bill Keller People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Henry Giles People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Springsteen People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Louisa May Alcott People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Bria Skonberg People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there's no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Bob Weinstein People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • Bill Irwin People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barack Obama People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
    Source: Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bodhidharma People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
    Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Jimmy Connors People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.
    Jimmy Connors
    American tennis player (1952 - )
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  • Paul Auster People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Ben Vereen People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Billy Corgan People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bernie Ecclestone People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.
    Source: The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 12, p. 245
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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