East Quotes - Page 17

• You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

  Alexander Haig

  Frustration, Middle East, Looks

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• I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience.

  Brian Harvey

  Grateful, Thinking, Mad

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• Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

  Marilu Henner

  Easter, Kids, People

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• A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Risk, Challenging The Status Quo

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• East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

  David Hockney

  Rivers, Valleys, Looks

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• I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

  Burl Ives

  Easter, Walking Away, Clothes

  Burl Ives (2017). “Wayfaring Stranger”, p.120, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

  Molly Ivins

  Middle East, Firsts, Steps

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• I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

  LeBron James

  Football, Team, Dragons

  Interview with Larry King, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  Gary Johnson

  War, Long, Decision

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• I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Ideas, People, Fit

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• No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Thinking, People, West Coast

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• The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.

  Tony Judt

  Hurt, Writing, Men

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• Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

  Meir Kahane

  Easter, Middle East, Goodness

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• If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

  Ric Keller

  Beach, Florida, Miles

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• Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.

  Wiz Khalifa

  New York, Pittsburgh, Way

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• When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Artist, People, Pittsburgh

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• You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Easter, War, Egypt

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• Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.

  Diane Kruger

  War, Struggle, Confusion

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• I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

  Bill Kurtis

  Kansas, Looks, Affinity

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• I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

  Diane Lane

  World, Journalism, Found

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• I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

  Laura Linney

  Upper East Side, Manhattan, Sides

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• Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

  John Major

  Middle East, Bottles, Genies

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• American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

  David Mamet

  Soccer, Football, Moving

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

  Nelson Mandela

  Thinking, West, Has Beens

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.183, Heinemann

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• Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

  Marc Maron

  Easter, Israel, Middle East

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