Western Quotes - Page 24

• Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.

  Lloyd Cutler

  Europe, Important, Nuclear

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• Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

  Simon Callow

  Jesus, Men, Fascination

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• We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

  Kiran Desai

  Thinking, Issues, Immigration

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

  Frank Vincent

  Believe, Cities, Challenges

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• Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Mother, Father, Book

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• The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

  Sergio Aragones

  Long, Stories

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• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Doctors, Ethical Issues

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• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  Garth Ennis

  Book, Character, Literature

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• It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

  America Ferrera

  Issues, Western Culture, Would Be

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• The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

  Carl Rogers

  Essence, Taught, Western Culture

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

  Rene Dubos

  Believe, Men, Vegetables

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• It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.

  Rene Dubos

  Health, Civilization, Facts

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• The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

  James Chanos

  Numbers, Chinese, Growth

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• I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

  Dennis Farina

  Real, Used, Made

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• If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

  Marc Faber

  Cancer, Government, People

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• I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

  Sue Grafton

  Summer, Teacher, College

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• I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to.

  Clifton Collins, Jr.

  Country, Song, Singers

  "EXCLUSIVE: Clifton Collins Jr. Discusses His Burgeoning Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 26, 2009.

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• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  Tayari Jones

  Issues, Secret, Literature

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• The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

  Kelly Miller

  Communication, Army, Should

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

  Richard Jenkins

  Would Be, Be Good

  "Richard Jenkins on 'Cabin In The Woods' and why he knows nothing about characters off the page". Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Dirty, Mind, World

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

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• Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

  Franco Nero

  Kids, Young, Never Ending

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• The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Country, Islamic, Focus

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• In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

  George Andrew Olah

  Summer, Responsibility, Academic Life

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• From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

  Cat Power

  Country, Hip Hop, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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