World
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
I eat, sleep, and breathe movies. Though I didn't understand the seriousness of films when I made my debut, I felt on top of the world.
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
The world's most famous and popular language is music.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.
The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.
Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough — you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
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