By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the humanity of the soldiers of Nippon. There may be a few I’ve missed, but not many. – Stephen Hunter
The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation. – Tim Daly
The sets on ‘Defiance’ are incredible. I’ve never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There’s not too much left for us to have to imagine. – Stephanie Leonidas
One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world. – Theodore Zeldin
There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents. – Victoria Strauss
Even though I’ve been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance – I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I’ve had little or no contact with its denizens. – William Boyd
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden. – Steven Strogatz
I don’t think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don’t like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world’s problems. – Tony Campolo
To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys. – Vanessa Mae
I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it’s a different world. – Steve Carell
Long commutes and traffic jams once associated with older, established cities such as London, New York or Tokyo are spreading throughout the world’s emerging economies. – William Clay Ford, Jr.
If the Loki in ‘Thor’ was about a spiritual confusion – ‘Who am I? How do I belong in this world?’ – the Loki in ‘Avengers’ is, ‘I know exactly who I am, and I’m going to make this world belong to me.’ – Tom Hiddleston
I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide. – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind. – Walter Cronkite
I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: ‘Anthem,’ by Ayn Rand; ‘1984,’ by George Orwell; or ‘Brave New World,’ by Aldous Huxley. – Sara Shepard
Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are. – Theodore Schultz
I’ve been many times to Dubai and the U.A.E., and I have friends that live there. It would be exciting to stage world heavyweight championship fights in the Arab world. It’s something Muhammad Ali achieved when he fought in Zaire or the Philippines. It’s absolutely exciting to fight in countries where you have never fought. – Wladimir Klitschko
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there’s something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think – I believe – it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component. – Vladimir Putin
It’s the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that’s what sci-fi does so well. – Tatiana Maslany
When you’re close to somebody, you can never really know how they’re experiencing the world. – Spike Jonze
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. – William J. Clinton
You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn’t matter where it is in the world. – William Eggleston
Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world – one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force. – Sarah Polley
One big difference between our situation in Myanmar and other situations around the world is that we’re not just trying to achieve peace with one group but 11 groups – so it is incredibly complicated as well. – Thein Sein
We want to excite the world about what’s out there. But we don’t want them to say, ‘Oh, there are lots of sites in Egypt – let’s loot.’ – Sarah Parcak