Taking on the world quotes:

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It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet. -- Robbie Robertson
I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips. -- Karen Russell
Everybody's got their phone up and everybody's taking recordings and posting it on YouTube and whatever and sending it to you, and it gets shown around the world. -- Franklin Graham
None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures. -- J. B. Pritzker
A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it. -- Claudio Hummes
AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works. -- Joe Perry
We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation. -- Arlo Guthrie
We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas. -- George Allen
Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have a habitable world where they can get to know various species of sea turtles. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius. -- Anthony Hopkins
It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now is a cloud storage service that is not subject to uncontrolled access by intelligence agencies. -- Mikko Hypponen
Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden. -- John Spratt
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. -- E. O. Wilson
I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow. -- Valerie Jarrett
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets. -- Gregory Corso
I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive. -- CeeLo Green
The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in. -- Joe Green
Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven. -- Tom Douglas
I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen. -- Jack Dorsey
Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look. -- Noam Chomsky
Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape. -- Michel Chossudovsky
Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking. -- Anne Bancroft
There are far too many self esteem problems in the world as it is. No sense taking on plant guilt, too. -- Janet Macunovich
I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all. -- Stacey King
Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away. -- Annie Dillard
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you. -- Caterina Scorsone
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world. -- Patti Smith
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. -- Dorothy Day
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own. -- Charles Bolden
Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world. -- Bill Hybels

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