Quotes with post-world

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  • Angela Carter My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Quentin Crisp My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Adam Sandler My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Barry Diller My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.
    Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Buzz Aldrin My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
    American Psycho (2014) 302
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Billy Corgan My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Berkeley Breathed My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bella Thorne My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Aleksandar Hemon My skin was the border between the world and me.
    The Question of Bruno (2012) 13
    Aleksandar Hemon
    Short story writer, novelist, columnist (1964 - )
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  • Aleksandar Hemon My skin was the border between the world and me.
    The Question of Bruno (2012) 13
    Aleksandar Hemon
    Bosnian-American author, critic and screenwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bill Engvall My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.
    Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ansel Adams Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Nye NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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