Around The World Quotes - Page 14

• Let Beth Leonard inspire you to sail around the world, explore the high latitudes, or discover your own capacity for adventure. Each nugget in this 'dream becomes reality' series of revelations is worth a thousand pictures.

  Gary Jobson

  Dream, Adventure, Reality

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• Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.

  Ishmael Beah

  Country, Children, War

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• For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.

  Milford Zornes

  Memories, Thinking, Years

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• I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.

  Simon Winchester

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• By leveraging the Unicode Standard, Progress Software is enabling its ASPs (Application Service Providers) and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to quickly and efficiently deliver their business applications to the Internet and to users around the world.

  Joseph Alsop

  Independent, Progress, Enabling

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• So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Brother, Chinese, World

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• There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.

  Martin Gore

  Party, Night, Long

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• If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.

  Tony Robbins

  Two, Majority, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

  John Legend

  Thinking, World, Fame

  "John Legend talks on music, wedding, Kanye, Syria, more". Interview with The Associated Press, www.denverpost.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I think diversity of thinking and healing traditions from around the world are good for us. The movement itself has evolved enormously and it's been a thrill to be part of it.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Healing, Thinking, Diversity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.

  Robbie Robertson

  Communication, World, Revolution

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• The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Turkeys, Names

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2001.

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• In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

  Gloria Gaither

  Country, Prayer, People

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• America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.

  Barack Obama

  Simple, Self, Blood

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• No such individual would find the Golden Rule surprising in any way because at its base lies the foundation of most human interactions and exchanges and it can be found in countless texts throughout recorded history and from around the world - a testimony to its universality.

  Michael Shermer

  Lying, Foundation, World

  Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.64, Macmillan

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• My favorite thing is being able to travel around the world and perform for my fans. I think I've lost 80 percent of my hearing. I definitely have very loud fans.

  Justin Bieber

  Thinking, Fans, World

  "Justin Bieber Talks 'Surviving' Puberty". Vibe.com Interview, www.mtv.com. July 23, 2010.

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• Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not even churches protest when Christians are put in prison for their faith.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Two, Church

  "Tortured For Christ". Book by Richard Wurmbrand, June 1940.

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• My goal--and this is kind of my own little secret--but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young--not that it's big really that many places--but places where they have no idea about football.

  Steve Young

  Football, Ideas, Goal

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• There is this incredible, indelible community that has sprung up around the show, a community that gathers in homes and clubs, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kansas and around the world. A community that, in some places, meets quietly in a lesbian bar that doesn't even exist depending on whom you ask.

  Jennifer Beals

  Home, Sprung Up, Kansas

  Message on ourchart.com, October 16, 2008.

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• Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as clichés or old wives' tales do.

  Jimmy Carr

  Wife, Culture, World

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.12, Penguin

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• I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would take you around the world!

  Jack Williams

  Journey, World, Plant

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• Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

  Julian Assange

  Powerful, Media, Abuse

  "A Conversation With Julian Assange". Interview with John Cook, gawker.com. November 29, 2012.

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• When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, America, Land

  The second presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.democracynow.org. October 17, 2012.

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• Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world, we will lose. If we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped here in this country, then companies won't come here. Those investments are what's going to help to make sure that we continue to lead this world economy not just next year, but 10 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Apples

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• We need people from all around the world. We need entrepreneurs, we need students that we're educating in our schools that we then throw out and we should make sure they can stay here. If we don't have the new flux of immigrants, nobody's going to create the jobs for the Americans who are currently out of work.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, School, People

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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