Quotes with world-view

Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 3096.

  • Bernard M. Baruch My fellow citizens of the world, we are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.
    Source: Speech to United Nations meeting, 14 June 1946
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Lord George Byron My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Peter Carey My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
    Source:  (2004)
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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W. Bruce Cameron My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Ben Harper My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
    Source: Radio Interview, March 10 1999 [9]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bob Seger My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • William Blake My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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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.
    Source: 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.
    Source: American Psycho (2014) 302
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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