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“I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.”

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“I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.”

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Author:Don McLean

“I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.”

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Author:Don McLean

“I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.”

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Author:Don McLean

“We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.”

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Author:Eric McCormack

“It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.”

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Author:Erin Morgenstern

“There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.”

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Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.”

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Author:Eva Mendes

“I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack.”

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Author:Frankie Muniz

“If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.”

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Author:Gary McCord

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.”

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Author:James MacArthur

“Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.”

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Author:James MacArthur

“We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.”

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Author:James MacArthur

“It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.”

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Author:James McBride

“In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.”

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Author:St. Vincent

“Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.”

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Author:Tony Visconti

“Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.”

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Author:Vernor Vinge

“How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?”

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Author:Vernor Vinge

“I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.”

“A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.”

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Author:David Whyte

“Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.”

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Author:David Whyte

“Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.”

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Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.”

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Author:Jacki Weaver

“I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.”

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Author:Joe Wright

“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.”

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Author:Marianne Wiggins

“Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.”

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Author:Peter Welch

“When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.”

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Author:Pharrell Williams

“It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.”

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Author:S. Robson Walton

“Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.”

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Author:S. Robson Walton

“The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.”

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Author:Rowan Williams

“I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the cinematographer is really trying to set up a whole world, so it can't be more intricate and more beautiful to the viewers, in 3D.”

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Author:Chris Zylka

“We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.”

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Author:Jacob Zuma

“People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.”

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Author:Jacob Zuma

“We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.”

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Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.”

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Author:Rachel Zoe

“Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.”

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Author:Zhang Ziyi

“If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.”

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Book:Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age

Source: Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age

“You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.”

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Author:Eva Brann

“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”

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Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“I have the best job in the world with the best fans in the world”

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Author:Jeremy Davis

“Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.”

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Author:John Hodgman

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