Great World People Quotes - Page 1

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder / Playwright
Funny
Great
Contagion
Danger
Insanity
Ninety Nine
People
Percent
Great World People
World People Rest
Great World Rest
Rest
Fools
Ninety-Nine Percent
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New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
David Letterman / Talk Show Host
New York
Cities
Moving
Numbers
Great World People
Number
Leads
Sudden
Whom
York
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One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
Sarah Lacy / Journalist
Media
People
Social Media
World
Great World People
Ironies
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The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.
Esther Duflo / Economist
Differences
Income
Poor
Rich
Great World People
Between
Interested
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It's really important to have subjects that people all over the world are familiar with, and the Disney films are really great that way.
Whit Stillman / Writer
Familiar
Subjects
Great World People
Great World Important
Disney
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
Daddy Yankee / Singer-Songwriter
Limbo
Response
Great World People
Greatest Hits
Latinos
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The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.
Chris Evans / Actor
Book
Comic
Comic Book
Fans
Great Fans
Mean
One Thing
Opinionated
People
Great World People
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I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.
James Bobin / Film Director
Entertainment
Performers
Great World People
Great World Live
Entertainment World
Onstage
Stumble
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There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'
Rebecca Hall / Film Actress
Pet
Hello
Letters
Names
Thinking
Voice
Writing
Great World People
Fan
Paw
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There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.
William Clay Ford, Jr. /
Demand
Mobility
Please
Great World People
Come And Go
Schedule
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It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Accused
Needs
People
Politically Correct
Relax
Great World People
Correct
Screwed
Seriously
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People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.
Ken Hakuta /
Every Second
Including
Reality
Great World People
Blowing
Changes
Directions
New Opportunities
Opportunities
Second
Snapped
World Changes
Yours
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I don't buy this thing that our industry is responsible for all the ills of the world. We have great people at JPMorgan Chase. We operate with a lot of rigor. Our clients are happy with us.
Jamie Dimon / Business Person
Clients
Great People
Rigor
Great World People
Chase
Ills
Operate
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There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not like a snooker match. Each orchestra has different things to offer.
Simon Rattle / Conductor
Different Things
Goodness
Orchestra
Ranking
Great World People
Match
Thank Goodness
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People need to feel like their heroes are human, not on the mat but in the world. The more people can see that, the more they can understand that they're capable of doing great things as well.
Jordan Burroughs / Olympic Athlete
Great Things
Great World People
Mat
More People
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We have hillbillies with third grade educations and 8th grade educations who have conquered the poker world. There is no telling why someone is great at reading other people. Some people just are.
Phil Hellmuth / Professional Poker Player
Great World People
Conquered
Educations
Grade
Poker
Telling
Third
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I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it's a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.
Simon Cowell / Television Producer
America
Enthusiastic
Nuts
Thinking
Great World People
Crack
Great Place
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People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.
Willie Geist / Television Personality
Experts
Platforms
Great World People
Accountable
Great Thing
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Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.
Fareed Zakaria / Journalist
Country
Crucial
Educated
Iran
Order
Great World People
Great World Country
Dynamic
Million People
Pressed
Sanctioned
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I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.
Henry Rollins / Musician
Cool
Black Sabbath
People
Performing
Sabbath
Singing
Solo
Song
Years
Great World People
Asked
Cool Great World
Year
Favorite
Ozzy
Favorite People
Tour
Truly
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Writing is like shouting into the world. So when someone shouts back, it's a really big deal. To have people who read hundreds and hundreds of books a year say, 'Hey, we thought this was really great,' that's a huge self-esteem boost.
Celeste Ng / Writer
Big Deal
Boost
Hey
Self Esteem
Shouting
Great World People
Hundreds
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I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I have a great amount of compassion for people who feel that they don't fit in, or people who feel they have trouble finding their place in this world.
John Grant / Writer
Compassion
Decades
Triggers
Great World People
Developed
Neuroses
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There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?
Dana Spiotta / Author
Artist
Glad
People
World
Worthwhile
Great World People
Published
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It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great.
Russell Crowe / Actor
Religion
Certain
Disagree
Feels
Grounding
Perfect
Seems
Type
Great World People
Run
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We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.
Studs Terkel / Author
Generous
Most Powerful
Great World People
Great World Important
Extent
Great Extent
Important People
Powerful Nation
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The world is in a bit of a state. I don't know how it's happened so quickly but everyone's a bit on edge. I'm not sure that our leaders are doing a great job globally. We're hoping on Trump and Kim Jong-un - these two people who maybe aren't necessarily the sanest.
Michael Mcintyre / Stand-Up Comedian
Great Job
Great World People
Edge
Hoping
Two People
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Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems - and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason, it has a huge and growing capacity to harm millions of people.
Craig Federighi /
Blink
Capacity
Code
Eye
Harm
Huge
Limitless
Malicious
Millions
Software
Spread
Great World People
Millions Of People
Problems
Quickly
Seemingly
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I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
Michael Palin / Comedian
Quality
Acquire
Decency
Fairness
Majority
Navigate
People
Remarkable
Reputation
Trying
Great World People
Causing
Decent People
Great Majority
Qualities
Shared
So Many People
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When we tour in America, the shows are great, and the fans are just as passionate and excited as anywhere else in the world, but in other parts of the world, in parts of South America and in parts of Europe and Asia, the size of the venues and the amount of people we get at concerts is considerably more.
John Petrucci / Guitarist
America
Amount
Asia
Concerts
Europe
Excited
Fans
Size
South America
Venues
Great World People
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Considerably
Parts
Tour
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The great difficulty with Guantanamo is it was perceived correctly as being a place where people were not being detained subject to rules. I don't think the world thinks that you can't detain suspected terrorists - the world thinks you can do that, but you have to do it pursuant to rules and to clear charges.
Noah Feldman / Author
Difficulty
Guantanamo
Great World People
Great Where World
Charges
Correctly
Detain
Perceived
Suspected
Terrorists
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I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.
Peter Hollingworth / Bishop
Balance
Bizarre
Pluralism
Pluralism Is
Religious
Respectable
Spectrum
Thinking
Great World People
Extreme
Discriminate
Risky
Unable
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Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.
Alexandra Petri /
Harvard
Great World People
Attend
Cross-Section
Normal People
Praises
Sets
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