#first world

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#after #always #around #before #born

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#deeply #enough #felt #first #first world

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#country #dissent #eliminate #entirely #ever

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#believe #first #first world #first world war #genre

I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#experience #first #first world #hard #i

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#cup #expect #experience #first #first world

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#because #being #could #first #first world

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american #because #believe #best #best way

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea? ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#countries #fewer #first #first world #give

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#after #big #commissioned #documentary #england