World
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Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.
In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you — what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind — you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, "If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?" and he answered me with two words: "A pencil". Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied — about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works — and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.
World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place — police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
