Center Of The World Quotes - Page 2

• Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Men, Tree, Secret

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• New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

  Zubin Mehta

  New York, World, Lions

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• In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.

  Vittorio Gassman

  Real, Italian, Needs

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• The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons ­nor should anybody else. But the point in the Middle East, as distinct from North Korea, is that this is center of the world's energy resources. Originally the British and secondarily the French had dominated it, but after the Second World War, it's been a U.S. preserve. That's been an axiom of U.S. foreign policy, that it must control Middle East energy resources.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was really one of the - whose name is impossible to pronounce - who was really one of the architects of this very aggressive American interventionist foreign policy, you know, really stand up to Russia, challenge them, not only Russia but China. He's changed his tune now and is basically advocating for a much more diplomatic and collaborative approach to the other power centers of the world that are just kind of moving on without us right now.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Names, Russia

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I unlearned the model of being an editor like Ezra Pound with T.S. Eliot, the unconscious belief that America was the center of the world, and that honesty meant saying what I thought and always being direct.

  Lynne Tillman

  Honesty, Editors, America

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.

  Martin Amis

  America, World, Matter

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• I am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and always will be. I do not believe that we are in the center of the world. It is possible that there are gods who do not relate to human. As an artist, I believe that it is possible to depict these forces.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Believe, Artist, Thinking

  "Structures Are No Longer Valid". "Ein Gespräch; Joseph Beuys, Jannis Kounellis, Anselm Kiefer, Enzo Cucchi". Book edited by Jaqueline Burckhardt, 1986.

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• I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Somewhere Else, World

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• Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

  Martin McDonagh

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Martin McDonagh, Our New Norman Mailer" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.

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• I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.

  Jason Mraz

  Regret, Parent, Secret

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 01, 2014.

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• Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Night, Sky

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

  John Green

  New York, Opportunity, Cities

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• In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

  Martin Seligman

  Believe, People, World

  "Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life". Book by Martin Seligman, August 10, 2011.

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• The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Country, Lying, Florida

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• When I came to Barcelona, I really liked in the dressing room that I found balanced, normal people: [Victor] Valdes, [Carles] Puyol, [Andrés] Iniesta. They don't think they are the center of the world for being football players.

  Lilian Thuram

  Football, Player, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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