Quotes and Sayings About Village
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
-- Adam Rapp -
I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
-- Adolph Green -
Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.
-- Adrien BrodySource : Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.
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Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.
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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
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Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
-- Alistair Cooke -
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.
-- Alvin Toffler -
To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
-- Andrea Gibson -
China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.
-- Andrea Jung -
I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.
-- Andrew RannellsSource : "Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells on Slapping, Stripping & His New TV Show". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. June 15, 2012.
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I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
-- Anton Corbijn -
I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.
-- Arthur Ruppin -
As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.
-- Arundhati Roy -
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
-- Barbara Kruger -
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Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.
-- Bidzina Ivanishvili -
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 JohnsonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village
-- Bunker RoySource : "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.
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A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.
-- Carroll Quigley -
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I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.
-- Catherine Stock -
The true India resides in its villages
-- Charan SinghSource : WebIndia123 profile for Chaudhary Charan Singh, www.webindia123.com. March 06, 2014.
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I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.
-- Christa McAuliffe -
Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
-- Colin Farrell -
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Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
-- D. W Brogan -
Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
-- Daniel Defoe -
So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.
-- David Amram -
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
-- David Attenborough -
The village is coming back, like it or not.
-- David BrinSource : David Brin, Matt Bai, Melissa Febos, Joseph Sutton, Mike Siegel (2017). “1984 in the 21st Century: An Anthology of Essays”, p.10, Riverdale Avenue Books LLC