West Quotes

• Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Art

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", www.imdb.com. 1930.

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• I’ve loved the whole process. From previews to rehearsals, I’m in the best company. I’ve done one West End show before this but the excitement here…it’s incredible. It’s been a real education working on this, I don’t feel worthy. The role is over the top, bold and ridiculous.

  Rupert Grint

  Real, Roles, Done

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• If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso.

  Kanye West

  Believe, Espresso, Fans

  "Kanye West's vaulting ambition does him - and others - a disservice" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Misunderstood, East, Orientalism

  "The Ballad of East and West" st. 1 (1892)

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• The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

  Billy Graham

  Our World, White, Numbers

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• Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Growing Up, Educational

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of every American living west of the Mississippi. If this trend continues, America will gradually sink into the status of a Third World nation - more unemployment, more shackles on production, more poverty.

  John Hospers

  Government, America, Long

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• I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Night, Want

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.30, Anchor

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• I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

  Ang Lee

  Drama, Thinking, Romantic Love

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• The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Civilization, Hunters

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.17

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• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dog, Russia, People

  Broadcast on BBC Russian Service, in Listener 15 Feb. 1979

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• I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Jobs, Mean

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview With Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people, this is the level that things could be at. So when you get something that has the name Kanye West on it, it’s supposed to be pushing the furthest possibilities. I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

  Kanye West

  Responsibility, Thinking, Names

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Buddhism, Sky

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• You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

  Kanye West

  Nucleus, Jordan, Egomaniacs

  "'I Am So Credible And So Influential': 8 Hilariously Narcissistic Lines From Kanye's NYT Interview" by Josh Kurp, uproxx.com. June 12, 2013.

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• The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.

  Jim Morrison

  Evil, World, Haunting

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• For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Country, Growing Up, Blood

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• I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

  Muhammad Abduh

  Religious, Islamic, Western Culture

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• There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

  Alexander Siddig

  Roles, Enough, Sympathetic

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• Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

  Gary Bauer

  Broken, Soul, Suffering

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• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  Xavier Becerra

  War, Order, Years

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• I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

  Ronald Biggs

  Art, School, London

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

  Buffalo Bill

  Strong, Loneliness, Character

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

  Buffalo Bill

  Effort

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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