World Quotes - Page 926

I think that for the developing world there are many versions of capitalism, and countries have to choose one that's appropriate.

I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid of it I think would be wrong.

The momentum today behind the idea of a new global reserve currency reflects, in effect, the rise of the rest in world politics and economics, led by China.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

TV show is always challenging. It's challenging when you have all of the time and money in the world, and it's more challenging when you have less money.

The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

It's really fun to create something that touches the world.

Sometimes you do things that are fundamentally built to touch the world, and you feel good when you're successful doing it, and you're disappeared when the world fails to respond, which also happens.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

To see the world is to judge the judges.

I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

He [Merlin] is slightly from another world and place, so it [challenge in bringing the role to life] is about having fun and presenting it in a new way. He's more of a politician, and slightly Machiavellian, but there's also a lovely relationship going on between Merlin and Arthur. There's so much to be had, really.

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up.

I exist in the world and live in my art.

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.