Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'
They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy.
All around the world, there is corruption, tribalism and division, as many find it easier to pick on those that are different, which is why we need to hold tightly to the good in this world.
I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.
It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.
Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.
I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.
One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.
Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?
Books aren't just books they're a completely different world in the palm of your hands
