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" Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. "
Muhammad Yunus
" After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing. "
Andrei Codrescu
" Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side. "
David Hewson
" All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp. "
Johnny Weissmuller
" As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. "
Nicholas D. Kristof
" As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi. "
Pankaj Mishra
" Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. "
Peter Carey
" Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you. "
Kareena Kapoor Khan
" Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs. "
George Armstrong Custer
" But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. "
Roger McGuinn
" Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia. "
Tom Folsom
" Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?' "
Muhtar Kent
" Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries. "
Amitava Kumar
" Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up. "
Ethan Coen
" Democracy cannot be a plaything for the capital cities. It has to infiltrate every nook and cranny in the country, including the village. "
Meles Zenawi
" During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village. "
George Crook
" Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely. "
Maya Angelou
" Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. "
John Berger
" Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away. "
Peter Diamandis
" Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.' "
Karin Slaughter
" Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening. "
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
" Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral. I was never really part of anything except the classroom. That's where I belonged. "
Frank McCourt
" Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. "
Henry David Thoreau
" Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race. "
William Kingdon Clifford
" Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe. "
Patrick Chappatte
" Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students. "
Daniel H. Hill
" Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. "
Diane Abbott
" For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this 'Celebration' village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first. "
John Hench
" 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
" Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers. "
Aravind Adiga
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