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“Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!”

“I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors. I worked in a grocery store back in the little village where I grew up but I found it mind-numbingly boring.”

Mind Littles Actors Found Speak Break Building Grew Grew Up Boring Stores Village Website Groceries Grocery Stores

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.”

Village Small Villages

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“I don't recall a show I've ever been on that had the same director do two episodes in a row, but in England, they do it all the time. In England, they'll just have one director for eight episodes. That was the British system that Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner wanted to bring to the States. I think there was a nice merger of the two systems. They might have gone with one director, but John had obligations on The Village, and he had to leave and come back, so it seemed like a natural place to break it up.”

Thinking Two States Shows Might Wanted Natural Break Gone Nice Directors England Eight British Obligation Village Episodes Recalls Jane Mergers

Author:Glen Morgan

“Geographically, Afghanistan is a good place for the terrorists, because it's surrounded by mountains, and there are lots of villages inside mountains, so it's easy for them to hide themselves, or to recruit the people. Whatever they want to do they will do.”

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Author:Najibullah Quraishi

“What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.”

“A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!”

Ifs Trying Wells May Littles I Can Home Might Asks Easy Sound Simple Crazy Dangerous Balance Tradition Pleasant Necks Tunes Village Roof Scratches One Word Fiddle Fiddlers Fiddler On The Roof

Author:Sheldon Harnick

“My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.”

Men Form Father Team Unions South Saved Opening Gas Village Heroic Coal Mining Bowlers Yorkshire Coal Mining

Author:Brian Blessed

“The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.”

Should Dream Light Stars Black Dark Wonder Sight Towns Train France Maps Village Dots Firmament Points Of Light

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering”

Ifs Kind Two Suffering Grows Understanding Flower And Love Village Mud Summertime Lotuses Plums Understanding And Love Lotus Flower

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected, more abused and more mistreated than they have been in our time. This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child.”

Children Doe Has Beens States Involved Raises Dues Our Time Village Coincidence Neglected Mistreated Village To Raise A Child

Author:Bob Dole

“I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn't.”

Bigs Actors Born Cities Possibility Artistic Germany Village Big Cities

Author:Diane Kruger

“I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.”

People I Can Walks Talking Like Me Someday Village

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“It takes only one child to raze a village.”

Children Village

Author:Florence King

“The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know whenever such calamities occur; whatever we do is not enough...more has to be done.”

Knows States Done Enough Government Worst Work Out Affected Village Flood Packages Calamity Maharashtra

Author:Sonia Gandhi

“Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being.”

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.”

Way Matter Might Social Community Figures Crisis Edges Critical Psychological Substance Description Village Peculiar Social Life

Author:Terence McKenna

“Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.”

Ifs Thinking World Heart Reality Joy Wonder Steps Path Flower Walking Mindfulness Machines Opposites Infinite Engaged Village Enabling

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line between neologism and hype? What's the language of the global village? How can we keep pace with technology without getting bogged down in buzzwords? Is it possible to write about machines without losing a sense of humanity and poetry?”

Writing Doe Ends Today Humanity Language Lines Technology Losing Machines Currents Eras Posts Village Pace Shifting Hype Navigate Jargon Vernacular Global Village Gutenberg

Author:Constance Hale

“Even after so many decades of Independence there are 18,500 villages in India which do not have electricity. We affirm our commitment to provide electricity to all those villages that do not have electricity.”

Commitment India Independence Decades Village Electricity

Author:Narendra Modi

“Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.”

Growing Up Growing Danger Oppression Village Fewer Small Villages

Author:Luke Treadaway

“My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.”

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Author:Blake Bailey

“I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.”

Feels Feelings Home Running Beautiful Used Born London Used To Be Paris Parks Village Beautiful Places

Author:Eva Green

“Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield.”

Littles Done Facts Father Known Son Birth Moved Village Bards Avon

Book:The Mother Tongue

Source: The Mother Tongue

“I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.”

Helping Courses Boys Ambition Argument Crowds Coffee Cups Kitchen Hops Village Fierce Dishes Midnight Interrupted Coffee Cup

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I always felt bad for Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa lived a whole life helping starving children and dying villages, but she could never be declared a saint 'cause she never actually performed a miracle. And it was towards the end, she was desperate to perform a miracle, so she would go up to starving children and go, 'What's that behind your ear? It's a quarter!”

Children Ends Whole Helping Mother Felt Causes Behinds Dying Ears Miracle Saint Whole Life Desperate Village Quarters Starving Teresa

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded to me very much like the tradition of a hired man in any world-class poem. That's what I was, a hired man. I was working for a collective farm.”

Men World Way Class Tradition Collectives Village Farms World Class

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something to the effect of how it felt to be dropping bombs on children in Vietnamese villages. And it got very icy in there all of a sudden, and finally the teacher said, "Oh, well, Eric reads a lot of newspapers. Next question."”

Wells Children Said Real Kids Next Force Felt Teacher Air Effects Students Newspapers Hey Bombs Village Pilots Dropping Eric Air Force Icy Vietnamese Oh Well Music Teacher Dropping Bombs

Author:Jello Biafra

“If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.”

“Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea.”

Ifs Littles Stills Laughing Died Village Diarrhea

Author:Dana Gould

“The Smurf village was destroyed weeks ago and Bush has still not made an appearance. George Bush doesn't care about tiny blue people.”

People Made Stills Care Week Blue Appearance Tiny Destroyed Village Smurf

Author:Christian Finnegan

“As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.”

Thinking World Looks Country Dream Young Night Space Boys Growing Up Growing Special Moon India Attraction Village Far Away

Author:Naveen Jain

“Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.”

Men World Firsts Streets Events Reader Photography Ordinary Window Presses Village Outlook Shrinks Ordinary Man

Author:Gisele Freund

“I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and it's fascinating to live through it and try to capture it on camera.”

Way Feels Trying I Can Culture Speak Cameras Photograph Fascinating Village Capture Mexico Speak The Truth

Author:Graciela Iturbide

“It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.”

Way Years Next Effort Five Importance Conviction These Days Five Years Village Highways Fiber

Author:Narendra Modi

“For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .”

People Years Might Risk Sea Ten South China Bombs Village Communist Vietnam Floats Drowning Piracy Dehydration

Author:Vernon A. Walters

“Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.”

Wells Simple Pieces Built Structure Patterns Village One Piece Prominence Global Village

Author:Terry Riley

“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school. Education is indeed necessary for all, and this is evident if we consider the different degrees of ability. No one doubts that those who are stupid need instruction, that they may shake off their natural dullness. But in reality those who are clever need it far more, since an active mind, if not occupied with useful things, will busy itself with what is useless, curious, and pernicious.”

“I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.”

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Author:Roger Hilsman

“My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.”

Want Ideas Independent Neighbor Village Republic Dependence

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.”

Men Language Grows Growth Modern Structure Architecture Meaningful Circles Traditional Related Consistent Customs Village Find Me Modern Man Implied

Book:Tradition and Revolution

Source: Tradition and Revolution

“The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.”

Light Levels Silence Darkness Gone Towns Train Burning Village Valleys Passages Projectile

Book:Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus

“Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities‚ but the White Earth reservation villages‚ and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake‚ Ponemah‚ Brookston in Minnesota‚ and Manderson‚ Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.”

“In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”

World Believe Made Real Dies Causes Existence Example Wind Wine Finished Wounds Core Clock Village Crops Ripple Morris

Author:Terry Pratchett

“One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.”

Want Believe States Government Left Parent Church Mistake Love You Errors Libertarian Commit Village Categories Fascism Tribes Fallacy Isms

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.”

Should Flower Wander Colour Village Honey Bees Scent Sage Collecting Fly Away

Author:Gautama Buddha

“It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.”

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Author:Lynne Tillman

“My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved helping the pharmacist with prescriptions and on the shop floor, with its glamorous make-up aisle.”

Firsts Helping Jobs Smell Shops Village Earning Glamorous Prescriptions Aisle Chemist Part Time Earning Money Part Time Jobs Pharmacist

Author:Nicki Chapman

“I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor, it's a brilliant place to live because you've got inspiration all the time, wherever you are. You can turn a corner and you'll be in mansion houses with beautiful gardens and Ferraris, and you'll turn back on yourself and it'll be ghetto land. But I think that's brilliant.”

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