Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.
Ricky Whittle
FamilyWorldBlackDirectionBetter
The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.
Gordon Parks
GoodWalkPeopleWorldFeelDoors
I was never a bully; I would take on everybody at any time. Whether that was the No. 1 guy in the world or whether that was the No. 100 guy in the world, it didn't make any bit of difference. If somebody wanted to fight, I would show up and fight.
Chael Sonnen
TimeFightWorldNeverDifference
As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don't push the boundaries, then what's the point of having it?
Casey Neistat
JobWorldPushDirectorBoundaries
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
Barbara Amiel
TodayWorldFreeDividedEnslaved
Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.
Andrew Mitchell
TodayChildrenSchoolWorldCost
Everyone else in the world still thinks of American food as ketchup.
Jose Andres
FoodWorldAmericanEveryoneStill
Where human lives are concerned, time is always short, yet the world has witnessed the vast resources that governments can draw upon to rescue financial institutions deemed 'too big to fail.'
Pope Benedict XVI
TimeWorldFinancialShortHuman
Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.
Richard Engel
WorldOutIsraelArab WorldItself
Water - I drink gallons of it! You can use the most luxurious skincare products in the world, but they won't work as well if you do not hydrate from inside.
Erin O'Connor
WorkWaterWorldYouDrinkInside
The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.
Daniel H. Wilson
FutureChallengeWorldUpside Down
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
John Hersey
FearMemoryWorldHiroshimaSafe
Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.
Mike Barnicle
WorkWorldSmallSelfishCreate
Twitter is half me trying to live in the world and half me processing and sharing the world. I share a lot, and some of that is to keep me honest.
DeRay Mckesson
LiveMeWorldTryingSharingShare
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world.
Paul Theroux
MountainsRiverWorldGreatestNile
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.
Emma Donoghue
WorldThinkingHelpYouFairySee
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
Ben Bernanke
GreatBestPeopleWorldAmerican
I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
Finn Jones
WorldSeeingAlwaysMindfulnessBeen
Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'
Max Hastings
ChildrenPeopleWorldBelieveKnow
I think we're always going to be based in New York. So I would say 50 percent New York and the other 50 percent around the world.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
New YorkWorldThinkNewSayAlways
I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.
Miriam Toews
WorldLookKnowSuccessfulMeans
I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.
Scott Aukerman
LiveWorldPerformanceThoughtUp
We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America - and the world.
David Hogg
ChangeFutureDeathPeopleWorld
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
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