#world

If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#before #book #character #different #done

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#deported #empire #estimated #eve #hundreds

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. ↗

— Brian Eno

#arabic #come #enter #feeling #i

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes. ↗

— Brian Eno

#commercial #complete #flop #i #i tried

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas. ↗

— Julian Bond

#behind #demand #education #energy #got

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences. ↗

— Brian Eno

#differences #distances #drag #i #idea

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#becomes #being #came #far #listen

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#education #home #into #man #needs

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#everything #setting #tone #were #world

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#fact #food #granted #half #hungry