Around The World Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• But sovereign debt is a wider question not only in Europe but across the globe. While every country is a unique case, I think it's not an issue of countries acting on their own. We need a more coordinated strategy not only in Europe but around the world.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Thinking, Unique

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• Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world.

  John S. Pistole

  Europe, World, Thorough

  Transcript: Senate Hearing on TSA, Full-body Scanners, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.

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• I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me.

  Ricky Ponting

  Dad, Father, Moving

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

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• I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

  Alain Robert

  World, Building, Climbs

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• If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.

  Aly Raisman

  Team, Usa, Age

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• I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.

  Burt Rutan

  Fun, War, Airplane

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• Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

  Cesar Romero

  Hollywood, World, Towns

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• The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China, Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

  Prem Rawat

  Russia, Japan, America

  Speech in Tokyo, Japan, October 03, 1972.

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• I've been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I'm just kind of tired of going literally twelve time zones around the world. I would rather go six time zones and get to Iceland or whatever it is.

  James Balog

  Tired, Iceland, Time Zones

  Source: collider.com

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• Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Country, Communication, Example

  Source: www.salon.com

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• [Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

  Charles Lloyd

  Art, Blessed, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life and death, and therefore they alone could practice the magical art of healing... The emergence of women whose consciousness blends with the ancient themes of healing is the single most promising event in health care.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Art, Healing, Practice

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• I think what's surprised me most about the club is to feel that wherever you go, even when you go on holiday to a quiet place, you always find Man Utd supporters. It's something that you do not expect in some countries, yet we have them all around the world. Manchester United is a special and unique club because of its history. No-one has won as many trophies as we have in the English league. That history is something that you cannot buy. I think this club has a lot of great history and I feel very proud to be part of it.

  Juan Mata

  Country, Holiday, Unique

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• A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

  Anant Agarwal

  Numbers, Quality, Add

  "News Stream" by Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2012.

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• We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.

  Anant Agarwal

  Fashion, People, Mit

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• I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

  Joe Cocker

  Believe, Hard Work, Heart

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• United are more popular around the world. There is a difference and I can see that. Bayern Munich is a big club but United are bigger. When we [Bayern] were in China people knew us but Bayern were not so big in America.

  Bastian Schweinsteiger

  America, Differences, People

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• ...let's talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency and scoreless sports ties are boring.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Soccer, Sports, Ties

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• It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Real, Mean

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• The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Religious, Freedom

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