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The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.
Arundhati Roy
Christian
Hindu
World
Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.
Pete Waterman
Music
Question
Technology
World
The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that’s 14 year old boys.
Rob Walton
Books
Boys
Film
Old
Sports
World
We (actors) don’t really change the world. We reflect it… but Washington really changes the world.
Martin Sheen
Change
Washington
World
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Men
Old
World
The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
Clare Short
Causes
Now
People
Right
Words
World
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
William Shenstone
May
People
World
I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said “There’s no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there’s no military solution.”
Bradley Whitford
Human rights
Israel
Military
Rights
Solution
Terrorism
World
We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Mark Twain
Americans
World
Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.
Jon Stewart
President
Rest
Spain
World
Yesterday
Do theater. Because you’ll develop a craft that you’ll always have. It’ll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won’t go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
Mark Ruffalo
Act
Chance
Theater
Will
World
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner
Man
World
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
Antoine Rivarol
People
Society
Talent
Wit
Witty
World
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
Anne Rice
Answers
Knowledge
World
I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.
Alexander Walker
May
Sex
Violence
World
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
Claude Pepper
Country
Politicians
states
Thinking
United
World
A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
Sun Ra
Danger
World
I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it’s the way to see the world and get paid for it.
David Walker
World
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
Vivienne Westwood
Gold
World
Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.
Gordon Parks
Washington
World
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
Artist
Dream
World
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Name
Nations
Pen
Will
World
And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.
Lawrence Taylor
World
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.
Meg White
World
Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.
Ronald Steel
Americans
Television
World
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
Rowan D. Williams
Church
Hunger
People
World
I don’t say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Mary Wortley
Man
Merit
World
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
Harold Rosenberg
American
Europe
History
Time
World
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Friend
Wilderness
World
For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
Robert Welch
American
People
Today
World
Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.
John Raleigh Mott
Extreme
May
Nationalism
Old
World
I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world… perhaps you’ve seen it.
Steven Wright
World
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Absurdity
Thought
World
In today’s world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate – and even thrive – in an environmentally-friendly manner.
Olympia Snowe
Business
Today
World
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren’t particularly youth culture.
Robert Wyatt
Culture
World
Youth
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age – a Golden Age – of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
Joe Lieberman
Age
Freedom
History
Time
Will
World
I’ve learned one thing about life. We’re a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.
Ardel Wray
Dancing
Life
World
All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O'Casey
World
Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.
Charles Francis Richter
Justice
Name
World
Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don’t want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.
Silvan Shalom
Community
Countries
Party
Road
Want
World
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters
Blind
Body
Death
Indifference
Night
Pain
Shadows
Will
World
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick.
Lin Yutang
Goodness
Kindness
Mercy
Old
Today
Values
Words
World
The world’s made up of individuals who don’t want to be heroes.
Brian Moore
Heroes
Want
World
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
Golda Meir
Government
Ideals
World
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
Martin Scorsese
Cinema
Now
Talk
World
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
Lilies
Peacocks
World
America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.
Charles W. Pickering
America
Exploitation
Nation
People
Values
Vulgarity
Want
World
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness
Healing
Practice
World
Initially I probably didn’t even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it’s a total imaginary world.
Hugo Weaving
Acting
Clothes
Want
World
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Gore Vidal
Artists
Boys
Emotion
Kings
Life
Love
World
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