Quotes of: Global-village Keyword

I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.

Nicola Formichetti

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

Annie Besant

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

Alan Hansen

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

Minnie Pearl

Things are so much global and Americanised.

John Malkovich

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

Pure

Inside these letters, the eye will see Nearby are your friends, and VFD.

The Vile Village

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

Domenico Dolce

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

Walid Muallem

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

Rebecca Harding Davis

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

Michael Palin

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

Henry Rollins

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

Emmanuel Jal

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Brian Johnson

This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.

Freedom from Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That's Winning the Fight Against Poverty

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no industrial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the sp...

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life...

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

If a blanket could be used to keep one person warm, then it stands to reason that all the blankets in the world are to blame for global warming, and I think our political leaders, with all their wisdom, should confiscate all blankets and burn them. T...

Blanket

Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and finan...

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