"Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear."
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"If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world."
"only through new words might new worlds be called into order"
"Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself."
"I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me."
"Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love."
"You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world."
"I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters."
"nothing in this world was more difficult than love."
"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world."
"I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love."
"When we function from a place of positive energy, the world around us becomes more positive."
"Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was."
"New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world."
"I do not live in the world of sobriety."
"All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world."
"In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal."
"I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent."
"Love is the subtlest force in the world."
"My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious."