Phenomenon Quotes
623 Phenomenon quotes by 489 unique authors
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An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
— Hosni Mubarak
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The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
— Bill Nighy
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What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in…
— Deborah Norville
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a…
— Gary Oldman
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing…
— Pope John Paul II
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I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was…
— Jane Pauley
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I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism…
— Steven Pinker
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It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the…
— Vladimir Putin
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Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for…
— Tariq Ramadan
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't…
— Salman Rushdie
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First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
— Alexei Sayle
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I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there…
— Eric Schmidt
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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character…
— Will Self
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Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.
— William Shatner
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Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
— Eduard Shevardnadze
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The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
— Thomas Sowell
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There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.
— Sylvester Stallone
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So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the…
— Michael Stipe
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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
— Jock Sturges
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What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a…
— James Surowiecki
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The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.
— James Taylor
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It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
— John Travolta
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Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to…
— Blair Underwood
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The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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