Quotes About World

I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.

Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.

Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is introducing the reader to, but also enchant the reader with its mysterious and magical characters.

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.

When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

I compliment President Obama on having these summits each year in Washington in which people have talked about ridding the world of materials of mass destruction.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing.

Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false perception that if you are talking about race, then you're perpetuating the notion of race. I reject that.

I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

Playing in Barca is impressive: they're in the Champions League; everyone talks about this team. You will not find another club like it in the world.

Almost everything I have read about Istanbul talks about it as the gateway to the east. We're so programmed to think of it like that but for much of the world, it's the gateway to the west, or even where north meets south.

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the world, particularly with the other East Asian economies.

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

Growing up as a comedian the most influential person on me was Jon Stewart. He showed that comedy could have a real tangible effect on the world. He showed that comedy could move the needle of society and that a comic can do real things and make a real contribution.

Like Siemens, the UAE is big on innovation. It has become famous as a think tank for thought leadership in areas of interest to the world - and to Siemens.

At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.

The children of the world, what they want and what they need are health clinics and schools, not tanks or armed helicopters or fighter jets.

In the world of imagination, all things belong. If you take that on faith, you may be foolish, but foolish like a trout.

Although "being-in-the-world" is not an expression that any of the classical American pragmatists ever used, it beautifully articulates the pragmatic understanding of the transaction that takes place between human organisms and their environment – a transaction that involves know-how and is the basis for knowing-that.