Around The World Quotes - Page 4

• It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

  Elliott Abrams

  Rights, Goal, Administration

  "Obama’s Human Rights Disaster". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 25, 2009.

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• I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

  Ice Cube

  Cities, World, Los Angeles

  The Scene interview, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2006.

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• We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

  Ken Calvert

  Government, People, Gone

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• You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

  Robert Crippen

  Orbit, Half, World

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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• My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

  Tommy Douglas

  Dream, Jewels, People

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• 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.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  People, Looks, Done

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• Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.

  Virginia Foxx

  Light, Effectiveness, Accountability

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• I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Crazy, People

  "MTV push artist of the week: Kina Grannis" by Nicole James, www.mtv.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

  Melinda Gates

  Pregnancy, Should Have, Tools

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Pride, Pieces, Each Day

  "The Search for Purpose in the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson". thefilmstage.com. March 20, 2017.

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• I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

  Jim Breyer

  World, Want, Harvard

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• But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Two, Years, World

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• I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

  Craig Ferguson

  Running, Children, Bars

  "At a low ebb in life, Craig Ferguson wrote a novel. Now it's being lavished with lots of attention, and all he craves is authenticity" by Jane Ganahl, www.sfgate.com. June 05, 2006.

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• As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Animal, Yield, People

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• In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Energy, Climate, Needs

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• So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

  Uri Geller

  Book, Writing, Government

  www.urigeller.com.

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• I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

  Shirley Henderson

  Lonely, Jobs, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Order, Effort

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• With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Song, Believe, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

  David Kay

  World, Looting

  Dr David Kay's Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, www.globalresearch.ca. January 28, 2004.

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• China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.

  Naoto Kan

  Country, Thinking, Japan

  "Naoto Kan: 'Japan has lost its vigor'". www.cnn.com. November 17, 2010.

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• My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

  R. Kelly

  Mother, Father, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creativity, Rocks, Flames

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• American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Political, World, Stability

  "A frugal superpower’s rules" by Michael Mandelbaum, www.japantimes.co.jp. OCtober 20, 2010.

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• When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

  Ben Nicholson

  Girl, Regret, School

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