#wide

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. ↗

— George Eliot

#determined #life #private #private life #public

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#extinction #issues #like #many #more

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#became #because #born #college #friends

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale. ↗

— David Bohm

#communication #down #everywhere #feeling #general

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies. ↗

— Roland Emmerich

#american movies #even #everybody #hates #hollywood

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#being #better #bit #changed #culture

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#area #been #coast #column #country

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democratization #east #exists #middle #middle east

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond. ↗

— Will Estes

#chance #everybody #get #i #loves

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#development #grandest #grow #law #laws