Quotes with world

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  • Barack Obama It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • May Sarton It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Brooke Shields It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • George Eliot It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carol Shields It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.
    The Marriage Plot (2011) 314
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Carol Lynley It was strange being an adolescent fantasy for other people. I was so cut off from the real world. I went straight into the movies as a teenybopper, and had a very protracted adolescence myself. I was divorced when I was 20, but I was an adolescent until I was 26. Then I was in Europe, living with this fellow and he kind of helped me out. Told me some things about myself.
    Interview by Roger Ebert, December 4, 1972
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  • Albert Einstein It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    The Human Side (1954)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill McKibben It worries me because it alters perception. TV, and the culture it anchors, and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.
    The Age of Missing Information
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Don Marquis It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Paul Auster It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
    (2014)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Walters It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bruce Barton It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Brit Hume It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Bill Bailey It's always been my long-held belief that eventually insects will take over the world.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Jerry Seinfeld It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
    Jerry Seinfeld
    American comedian and actor (1954 - )
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  • Al Franken It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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