West Quotes - Page 29

• 2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

  George Scratchley Brown

  Military, Night, Israel

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• We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Differences, People, Democracy

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• I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.

  Clarke Peters

  Guy, Theatre, Musician

  "Clarke Peters: 'Lester Freamon's the guy I'd like to grow up to be'". Interview with om Lamont, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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• Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Paris, Cambridge University, Oxford

  "America Will Never Be Free Until the Last Liberal Is Strangled in the Entrails of the Last Bureaucrat". www.pearceyreport.com. November 12, 2010.

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• The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.

  Archie Panjabi

  Fall, Parent, India

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

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• I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.

  Jean Pigozzi

  New York, Thinking, Artist

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• The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

  Carroll Quigley

  Failure, Spain, Influence

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• I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.

  L.A. Reid

  Stars, Artist, Today

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• I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

  Lionel Richie

  Bucks, Influence, Realizing

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

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• I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

  Taiye Selasi

  Creative, Identity, Cultural Identity

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• The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

  Taiye Selasi

  Summer, Ghana, Firsts

  "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots" by Taiye Selasi, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

  Howard Stringer

  America, Hollywood, West Coast

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• In the West, you take people at their word.

  Ken Salazar

  People

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• In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Humanity

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• In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Squares, Circles

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• In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

  Jason Segel

  Water, Trying, Want

  "Jason Segel taps Apatow stable for his forthcoming muppets movie" by Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. March 17, 2008.

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• With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

  Joe Scarborough

  Home, Sides, Hours

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• But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.

  Christine Taylor

  Class, People, Giving

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• The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Art, Mean, Genius

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• It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Home, Successful, Russia

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• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Secret, Population, Planning

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• Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

  Dominique de Villepin

  World, Produce, Dangerous

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• I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

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• There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

  Andy Williams

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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