Western Quotes - Page 25

• Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

  Nancy Pearcey

  People, Christianity, Idiom

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• Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Giving, Doubt, Myopic

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• Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dream, Baby, Class

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• Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

  Daniel Pipes

  Constitution, Conflict, States

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• Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.

  Daniel Pipes

  Passion, Fighting, Dollars

  "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

  Daniel Pipes

  Editors, Cartoon, Hamburgers

  "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

  David Petraeus

  Country, War, Years

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• Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

  Lana Parrilla

  Children, Parent, Wheels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

  Edward Ruscha

  Mountain, Desert, Painting

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• The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.

  Edward Ruscha

  Sports, Country, Missing

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• Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

  Eric Rohmer

  Civilization, Shapes, Film

  "FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.

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• I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

  Ron Rash

  Long, Landscape, North Carolina

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• You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

  Ray Stevenson

  Real, News, Violence

  "Punisher Ray Stevenson Discusses Weapons and War Zone". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.

  Bill Shuster

  Country, Jobs, Skills

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• In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Humanity

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• In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Clouds, Self

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• In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.

  Huey Lewis

  Sports, Years, Land

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• The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.

  John Landis

  Children, Ideas, Serious

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 11, 2004.

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• Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

  Manmohan Singh

  Thinking, India, Economy

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• Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Class, Political, Georgia

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• I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

  E. P. Thompson

  Thinking, Groups, Germany

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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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• We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

  Alan Vega

  Country, Emo, Texas

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• My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

  Eli Wallach

  Firsts, Seven, Magnificent

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• In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, East, Mixtures

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