My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the…

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

The thing about New York stories that many storytellers often forget is that they can take place anywhere in the world. That's because for…

— Cord Jefferson

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War,…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“The U.S. will never be a free and happy nation while they continue to exploit and marginalize the Third World. The Third World will…

— Mev Puleo

I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique,…

— Peter Blair Henry

Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.

— Joel Parkinson

Benefitting from a job bubble is not only a first world problem, it's an upper-class-educated-lucky-to-be-in-the-right-industry-at-the-right-time kind of first world problem.

— Sarah Lacy

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918…

— Laurie R. King

“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a…

— Arundhati Roy

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children.…

— Jenny McCarthy

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although…

— Edward Herrmann

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have…

— Adam Hochschild

I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and…

— Neill Blomkamp

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we…

— Woody Harrelson