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“One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.”

World Children War Hate Culture Violence One Thing Taught Grew Mets Grew Up Ignorant Former Taliban Outside World

Author:Greg Mortenson

“It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.”

Thinking World Believe Soul Waiting Mates Naive Soul Mate

Author:Janet McTeer

“I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!”

Ifs Thinking World Trying Jobs Culture Clear Comedy Nice College Customers Stores Extras Just One 80s Hideous Malls Retail

Author:Jayma Mays

“I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress like I used to.”

World Feels Persons Used Worry Stress Wisest

Author:Jayma Mays

“Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're being genuine or not, but it's more that it can be a strain on your relationships.”

Ifs Knows World Mean Genuine Our Relationship Strain Cautious Profile Be Cautious

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.”

World Fame Instant Gratification Decadence Instant Gratification

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.”

World Mind Hands Kids Young Artist Teacher College Training Theater Incredibles Brilliant Bunch Around The World Young Minds

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.”

Knows World Worst Directors Elements Understood Theater I Realized Mysterious

Author:Joe Mantello

“First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters.”

World Firsts Persons Character Stories Journey Share Reader Deeper Insight Focused Suits First Person Protagonists Personal Journey

Author:Juliet Marillier

“Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.”

World Feelings Dream Flying Medal Friendship Day Happy Friendship Day

Author:Kate Mara

“We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.”

Ifs World Realizing Depends

Author:Leslie Moonves

“As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.”

Knows World Hands Figures Horse Sticks Our World Going To Work Automobile Hand In Hand Tents Carriages Replay Horse And Carriage

Author:Leslie Moonves

“I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.”

World Wells War Whole Values Culture Poor Destroyed War Of The Worlds World War I Apartment Grandparent Attics European History German History Old Values

Author:Lisel Mueller

“Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.”

People World Wanted Cold Tricks

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.”

World Matter Cities Growing Middle Internet Speed Access Where You Are Highways Getting High Deserted High Speed Broadband Ubiquity Internet Access

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.”

World Needs Helping Rate Focused Clients Interconnected Rate Of Change Interconnected World

Author:Mike McGavick

“At XL, we tackle risk like no one else, analyzing deeper and listening closely to our clients to create solutions that unleash the world's capacity to advance. By helping our clients unlock their full potential, we fulfill our own. Our new brand demonstrates this unique outlook and the commitment and value we bring to clients.”

World Helping Values Risk Listening Unique Solutions Commitment Capacity Deeper Brands Clients Outlook Analyzing Full Potential

Author:Mike McGavick

“XL is a world class brand with very successful insurance, reinsurance and life reinsurance businesses and I look forward to helping it realize its full potential.”

World Looks Helping Realizing Class Successful Brands Full Potential World Class

Author:Mike McGavick

“Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.”

People World School Song Class This World Drama Bicycle Corridors Clip Song And Dance Drama Class

Author:Nick Moran

“I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.”

People World Passion Missing Lovers Storytelling Plenty Dimensions Sci Fi Scope Other Worlds Magnitude

Author:Paul McGann

“You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.”

World Ends Plans Birth Flow The End Of The Day

Author:Poppy Montgomery

“I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.”

Ifs World Want Facts

Author:Randall Munroe

“Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.”

World Giving Writing Made Real Half Decades Real World

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Direct Twenties

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.”

People World Trying Seems Film Fit Bewildered

Author:Roger Michell

“I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.”

Thinking World Eye Sides Becoming Needed Appreciate Phases Captains Coins Flip Chuck

Author:Ryan McPartlin

“Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.”

World Humans Art Use Universe Human Beings Mines Fundamentals Physics Practicals Daily Life

Author:Yuri Milner

“Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.”

World Different Asks Language Answers Accumulation

Author:Yuri Milner

“It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.”

People Thinking World Should Humans Hard Black Human Beings Assuming Practicals Holes Application Quests Black Hole

Author:Yuri Milner

“I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.”

World Trying Various Corners Corners Of The World

Author:Yuri Milner

“I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.”

Thinking World Heart Guy Cutting Opposites Clean Decent Complete Opposites

Author:A. J. McLean

“France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.”

Thinking World Culture Left Accepting France Farmers Primitive Cowboy Dominating

Author:Adam Michnik

“Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.”

World Way Needs Certain Sports Difficult Forget Court Our World Difficult Times Tournaments

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.”

Thinking World Long Term Quality Effects Screens Video Superiors Cinema Sensitive Long Term

Author:Ann Macbeth

“Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.”

World Years Film Growth Involved Ten Training Happenings Reflection Years Ago Immense Documentaries Minerals Mining

Author:Ann Macbeth

“If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.”

Ifs World Children Country Would Be Responsibility Company Dying Determination Investing Very Good Developing Japan Good Business Muster Sense Of Responsibility Xerox

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.”

Men World Way Writing Wells Looks Done Wanted Difficult Leap Imaginative

Author:Anthony Minghella

“My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.”

World Style Music Is Pops Seventies Eighty Great American

Author:Barry Manilow

“But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.”

Thinking World Way Feels Whole Changed Happenings Whole World

Author:Barry McGuire

“I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.”

Men World Want Stories Hollywood

Author:Bernie Mac

“The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.”

World Needs Understanding Innovation Get Better Innovators

Author:Robert Metcalfe

“I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.”

World Littles Bigs Beautiful Talking Huge Originals Train My Favorite Collections Engines Toys Steel Tanks Favorites Things Legos

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.”

World America Film Worst Industry Desperate Britain Imitation Film Industry

Author:Catherine McCormack

“Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.”

People Knows World Bigs Running Heard Military Bills Filmmaker Gates Geek Rice Hardware

Author:China Mieville

“In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.”

World Heart Whole Fiction Fields Building Grew My Heart Grew Up Whole World Fantastic Dragons Dungeons Dungeons And Dragons Building Things Close To My Heart

Author:China Mieville

“I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.”

People Knows World Giving Today One Thing Giving Up Billions Islamic World Today

Author:Chris Matthews

“I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.”

Thinking World Should Art Important Country Kids School Form Used Lost Music Is Jazz Used To Be Exposed Lost Art Music In Schools

Author:Chrisette Michele

“Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.”

World Sake Bombastic

Author:Dannel Malloy

“That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.”

World Country States America Opportunity President United United States Land Prestige Land Of Opportunity

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.”

World Writing Children Two Hard Fun

Author:Denise Mina

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