West Quotes - Page 26

• West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Hair

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.257, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state ...

  Ariel Sharon

  Partnership, States, Importance

  Ariel Sharon's Speech at the Mideast summit, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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• East is East, and West is San Francisco

  O. Henry

  San Francisco, East, Californians

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1661, ShandonPress

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• It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Wings, Important, Firsts

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• Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.

  Haile Selassie

  Responsibility, Fighting, Civilization

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• In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

  Charles Portis

  Culture, Clubs, Despise

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• Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.

  James Buchan

  Egypt, World, Invasion

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• For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

  James Buchan

  Suicide, Giving, Victory

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

  David Puttnam

  Media, Moguls, Corporations

  "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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• It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

  James F. Byrnes

  Military, Struggle, People

  James F. Byrnes (1947). “Speaking Frankl.y”

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• If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

  George Carey

  Christian, Believe, Islamic

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• I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.

  Chuck D

  Hate, People, Records

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• When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

  Agnes Smedley

  Girl, Law, Force

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• In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Attitude, Islamic, Culture

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• I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Humanity, Natural, Salvation

  Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Order, Civilization, Desire

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• I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.

  Richard Beymer

  Smart, Character, Guy

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• My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

  Soulja Boy

  Firsts, Crank, Lost

  "Exclusive Interview with Soulja Boy!" by Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. November 29, 2010.

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• My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.

  Swizz Beatz

  Bridges, Ideas, Together

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• I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

  Brooke Burke

  Beautiful, Beach, Wine

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• We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Beach, Growing Up, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

  Charlotte Church

  Trying, Needs, Weight

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• There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

  Barbara Amiel

  Ideas, Confusion, Progress

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• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

  Barbara Amiel

  Wings, Today, Helping

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• Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

  Debbie Allen

  Play, Prophet, Harlem

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