Around The World Quotes - Page 24

• [Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.

  Hal Holbrook

  Book, Years, Literature

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

  Mark Hoppus

  Country, Culture, World

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• When I was starting out there was no Internet, there wasn't this sense that you could be connected to other writers around the world. And that created a kind of innocence, or parochial quality, even in NYC.

  Dani Shapiro

  Nyc, Quality, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing and what's happening around them. So there's a lot of potential for breaking news.

  Biz Stone

  Thinking, People, Twenties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Nice, People, Giving

  "mr. hollywood". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.seventeen.com. October 22, 2005.

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• Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world.

  Hassan Blasim

  Girlfriend, Mean, Son

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At the moment, for example, maybe ten percent of money in the world is related to goods and services. Ninety percent of money is just moving around the world, chasing money. So, money has become the ruler. And we have become the servant.

  Satish Kumar

  Moving, Example, World

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• When I think about the folks who are out there at home tonight watching... They know that this country is not respected around the world anymore. They know that this country is pushing the middle class, the hardworking taxpayers, backwards, and they saw a president who doesn't understand their pain, and doesn't have any plan for getting away from it.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Pain, Home

  Chris Christie at the 6th GOP debate in North Charleston, South Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. January 14, 2016.

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• My fans - I hate the word fans...my supporters - it's an international following that isn't from being in London and existing on the "scene." It came from being on the Internet, from being a teenager communicating with different artists, showing who I am, who KESH is, as well as connecting with other people around the world doing similar things.

  Kesh

  Teenager, Hate, Artist

  Source: www.elle.com

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• To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the case.

  Jade Puget

  Song, Writing, Play

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• Social media has been an incredible tool to connect to my fan base, and collaborate with people around the world. Some of my biggest breaks have come through people hearing my music on the Internet and then contacting me through social media.

  Wendy Starland

  Media, People, World

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I think that "Arabs coming out in droves" is so violative Jewish values that non-Jews admire so much about Jewish people throughout history, of welcoming the stranger, of standing up for the outsider, of defending the marginalized. This was classic us against them. This was the narrowest and meanest of politics, to which Jews, sadly and tragically, around the world have been subjected to.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Jewish Values, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.

  Maya Goded

  Reality, Focus, Humanity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Animal, Misunderstood, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We trust the bully much better than we trust the underdog. Maybe it's in our nature, but it is so that all around the world there is this certain type that can succeed in politics and it's people who are - alpha types.

  Jon Gnarr

  People, Bully, Underdog

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I pray at night, and I believe God has given me the gift to be able to perform in front of millions and millions of fans around the world. My faith in God has given me the opportunity to provide for my family and hopefully for generations to come.

  Oscar Gutierrez

  Believe, Night, Opportunity

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I understand that everyone around the world has the global economy crisis and the budgets on education are being cut and the first thing to go are the musical or arts programs and I definitely have to disagree with that.

  Sean Mackin

  Art, Cutting, Musical

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• I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  World, Today, Remember

  Source: aalbc.com

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• You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Struggle, People, Giving

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

  Eric Weiner

  Florence, Valleys, Looks

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• My booking agent, of course, here and overseas, their tendency is to want to build on a certain kind of measurable success, and I was thinking yesterday, what I'd like to do is maybe start to compile a list of the best 200 to 500 capacity rooms around the world and just start going to them again and again and again.

  Will Oldham

  Thinking, Yesterday, Agents

  "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Fighting, Idaho

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

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• There is the fact that - people have had a lot of confidence that the Chinese leadership could fix what is wrong with their economy so it wouldn't have ripple effects around the world. I think that confidence is being shaken by how difficult it is for them to manage their stock market and their currency.

  David Wessel

  Thinking, People, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical beast that's part lion, part dragon. You know at the bottom is a democracy, and then it's an imperial power around the world.

  Mark Danner

  Dragons, Democracy, Mythical Beasts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around the world, it's something that democracies tend to be quite skeptical about.

  Mark Danner

  Democracy, Use, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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