West Quotes - Page 4

• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Nature, Imagination

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Yale University Press

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• Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

  Brad Paisley

  Virginia, Hillbilly, Deep Down

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

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• America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

  Steven Pinker

  Gun, Cowboy, Europe

  "Is Human Violence On The Wane?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Political, Foundation

  Interview with TF-1 Television Channel (France), en.kremlin.ru. July 12, 2006.

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• Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

  Anthony Quinn

  Railroads, Mexico, West Coast

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• I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Thinking, Long, Dresses

  "Queen Rania to Fareed Zakaria:" We need to build channels of communication"". Interview with Fareed Zakaria, www.queenrania.jo. September 01, 2008.

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• The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophical, Islamic, Doubt

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• We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Blood, Hands, United States

  "Ground Zero Mosque Imam: America Killed More Innocents Than Al Qaeda" by Eric Shawn, www.foxnews.com. August 24, 2010.

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• As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, People, Together

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• I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.

  Kid Rock

  Car, Black, Special

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• I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

  Karl Rove

  Strong, Thinking, Wings

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• I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of mine. She lives in West Palm and I live in Miami, and when we're going back and forth to see each other, we sing: 'Oh, Baby Baby.' We sing all these 1990s songs. We're like two 14-year-old kids just having a good time.

  Kelly Rowland

  Song, Baby, Kids

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• Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

  Salman Rushdie

  Running, Resentment, Deeper

  "Islam's battle with the Islamists" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2001.

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• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  Salman Rushdie

  Iran, Regimes, Fundamentalism

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• The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

  Salman Rushdie

  Iran, Important, Force

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• The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  Salman Rushdie

  Government, Revolution, Iranian

  "Salman Rushdie: the fatwa, Islamic fundamentalism and Joseph Anton". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Names, Philosopher

  "Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mistake, Oil, Giving

  ‘There is no right not to be offended’ by Mukund Padmanabhan, www.thehindu.com. October 6, 2012.

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• The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fighting, Hands, Play

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• When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Book, People

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• This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Country, Legacy, Coast

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• Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Block

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• The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Easter, Real, War

  "THE CULTUREPULP Q&A: 'Persepolis' creator Marjane Satrapi". Interview with Mike Russell, culturepulp.typepad.com. January 25, 2008.

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• This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Christian, Doe, East

  "Connect the World" with Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2012.

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