"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."
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"I paint with my back to the world"
"Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do that. I get paid to do that. It's not like I'm doing heavy lifting up there. It's not like I'm solving the world's problems. It's like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people and it's cool."
"I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it."
"What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it."
"Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other."
"That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?"
"I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!"
"There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life."
"Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world."
"Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment."
"The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world."
"There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business."
"In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live."
"Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world"
"You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida."
"Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university."
"When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place."
"The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible."
"I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not."