Around The World Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Cities, Competition, Clients

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• Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Keys, Defense, World

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• If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.

  John S. Watson

  Country, Practice, Focus

  "Chevron CEO: Governments - Not Oil Companies - Are Responsible For Finding 'A Better Solution' To Climate". Associated Press interview, thinkprogress.org. January 3, 2013.

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• About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.

  John S. Watson

  Heart, Years, Oil

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• Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Thinking, People, Justice

  "Words of Wisdom to Live by: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.

  Mark Hertsgaard

  Responsibility, Government, Names

  Mark Hertsgaard (2003). “The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World”, p.211, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we've probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Hate, Sea

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• But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it's an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours.

  Jim Wallis

  Heart, Pay The Price, Issues

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• I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Moving

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Growing Up, Nashville

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Real, Organization

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an accountant walks, talks, smells - although not in the business community. For me it is a career that offers a lot of variety and challenges and I love it.

  Philip Roth

  Powerful, Circles, Careers

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• One aspect of play is the importance of laughter, which has physiological and psychological benefits. Did you know that there are thousands of laughter clubs around the world? People get together and laugh for no reason at all!

  Daniel H. Pink

  Laughter, Play, Laughing

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.

  Samuel J. Palmisano

  World, Reason, Efficiency

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• What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.

  David Bellamy

  Salary, Done, World

  "The green man". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2002.

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• The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.

  John C. Stennis

  Promise, Navy, World

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• Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Moving, Home

  "The Gospel According to Disney : Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust". Book by Mark I. Pinsky, 2004.

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• This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any other session in all American history, and what more worthy achievements could any person want to have? For it was the Congress that was more true than any other Congress to Thomas Jefferson's belief that: 'The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate objective of good Government.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Uplifting, Education, Country

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• We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Years, Quality

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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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