"I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow."
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"The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future."
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"From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly."
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"For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world."
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"Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time."
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"Why should I care? I have all the money in the world."
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"I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world."
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"You should just dump the whole saving the world plan and go with global domination. It's probably be more fun."
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"When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had no concept of anything else. The closest thing to a cool band I listened to was Radiohead. Radiohead were the only band I liked in high school. I was just obsessed with classical music, opera, Claude Debussy, and that kind of stuff."
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"We kind of write pop songs, but we don't fit in the pop world. We're really bad at being pop stars and walking down red carpets. We've got our own little bubble, which we really like. We've learned to really like that."
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"I loved the role [of John Wick]. I loved the action. I loved all the new characters. The world expands into the Underworld. It's getting bigger. Yeah, it was a really great experience [in John Wick 2]."
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"Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive."
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"I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that."
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"Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times."
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"We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss."
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"I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for."
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"Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things."
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"My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you."
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"The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?"
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"Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad."
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