World
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Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.
If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature', but my life was never like that.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
In 2007, my life changed forever. I signed on 'Tashan', a full-on glamorous masala movie, with two of the hottest and fittest actors around: Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. And me, rising out of the sea like a Bond girl, wearing nothing but a green bikini. I had nightmares of how my love handles would be on display for the whole world to see.
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.
We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people'.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
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