West Quotes - Page 27

• Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

  Jason Alexander

  New York, Way, Jersey

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air.

  Thomas Carper

  Commitment, Home, Air

  "Showing a Father’s Love by Protecting Our Children’s Health" by Tom Carper, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

  Ken Curtis

  Roles, Dramatic, Grew

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• Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

  Robert Carlyle

  Guy, Want, Hours

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.

  Stockard Channing

  Frustration, Wings, Enough

  "Actress Stockard Channing". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 17, 2011.

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• I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

  Fefe Dobson

  White

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• In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great.

  Tim DeKay

  Art, Hollywood, Lots Of Friends

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• Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

  Anita Diament

  Character, Names, Sacred

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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

  Waris Dirie

  Thinking, Difficult, Politeness

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• The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

  William Devane

  Wings, Presidential, Feeding

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• I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

  Charles Frazier

  Two, People, North Carolina

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• West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

  Melanie Fiona

  Perfect, Balance, American Life

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• I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.

  Matthew William Goode

  Beautiful, Stunning, County

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

  Jeff Goodell

  Virginia, America, Too Late

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• I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mean, Thinking, Islands

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• It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

  Joe Gold

  Saws, Shows, Highlights

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• I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

  Johnny Galecki

  Up North, Motorcycle, Hollywood

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• My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Israel, Strategy, Conviction

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• The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Israel, Done, Damage

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• At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

  Karen Armstrong

  Country, Intellectual, Looks

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Military, Israel, Cities

  Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

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• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Dream, Country, Giving

  "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". The UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.

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• I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

  Alan Furst

  Sides, West Side

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• It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Differences, Interesting, East

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