#world

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#away #bird #call #destroyed #gone

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#always #film #film world #flew #found

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#away #back #back to school #button #experience

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#back #college #could #doing #enthusiasm

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ↗

— John Cornyn

#around #border #came #coming #countries

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#career #characters #dictators #enjoyed #exist

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#around #changed #make #men #reasonable

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world. ↗

— Toni Collette

#know #know yourself #relationship #rest #world

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. ↗

— Robert Collier

#against #bit #encouragement #goal #knows

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in. ↗

— Robert Collier

#flux #make #mold #pour #shape