Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.
Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
We're a superpower with a Third World grid.
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
I always tell aspiring documentary filmmakers, 'You have to go into it because you love it; if you go into it for the money, you're an idiot.' The number one prerequisite is you have to be intensely curious. If you love learning and trying to make people figure out what makes people tick, it's the best job in the world.
Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Iran is a bad and dangerous actor in a volatile region of the world, which is why Congress enacted sanctions in response to the ballistic missile program and support for terrorist proxy groups. We must hold senior Iranian leadership accountable for destabilizing actions in the region and around the world.
I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.
I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.
We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.
Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.
I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
