Western Quotes - Page 26

• I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

  Anson Mount

  Thinking, Humanity, Quality

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.

  Joel McCrea

  Horse, Guy, Actors

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many of those in the medical fraternity instantly label treatments in the traditional, natural or holistic health fields as quackery. This word is even used to describe Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Indian Ayerveda, two medical systems which are far older than Western medicine and globally just as popular.

  James Morcan

  Two, Medicine, Chinese

  5 Copy quote

• Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

  Art Alexakis

  Men, Weakness, Males

  Interview with Ray Carsillo, collider.com. November 3, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Media, Korea, Years

  12 Copy quote

• There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world. That sparked violence in various parts of the world, including violence directed against Western facilities including our embassies and consulates.

  Susan Rice

  Government, People, United States

  "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. September 16, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backward-thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.

  John Hickenlooper

  Couple, Mean, Thinking

  "Hickenlooper Haunted By ‘Backward-Thinking’ Comment". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

  Howard Hawks

  Drama, Gun, Form

  19 Copy quote

• I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Mother, Father, Class

  4 Copy quote

• There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

  Richard Layard, Baron Layard

  Heart, People, Income

  "Happiness: Lessons from a New Science". Book by Richard Layard, April 7, 2011.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Thinking, Creating, Western Culture

  6 Copy quote

• Russia is now recognized as the center of the global 'mutiny' against global dictatorship of the US and EU. Its generally peaceful .. approach is in direct contrast to brutal and destabilizing methods used by the US and EU. The world is waking up to reality that there actually is, suddenly, some strong and determined resistance to Western imperialism. After decades of darkness, hope is emerging.

  Andre Vltchek

  Strong, Reality, Russia

  "Ukraine: Lies and Realities" by Andre Vltchek, www.counterpunch.org. April 11, 2014.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Heart, People, World

  "Heart Health: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Joel Fuhrman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, Eye

  4 Copy quote

• When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.

  Arnon Goldfinger

  Country, War, Thinking

  Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Country, Cities, Population

  4 Copy quote

• People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

  Johnny Otis

  Country, America, People

  "A Life in R&B / Johnny Otis looks back on his remarkable career, and at the end of an era" by Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. April 4, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.

  John S. Watson

  Country, Jobs, Taken

  4 Copy quote

• The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

  Keith Carradine

  Genre Is, Genre, Familiar

  7 Copy quote

• I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

  Keith Carradine

  Thinking, Genre

  7 Copy quote

• The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.

  Dick Ebersol

  Athlete, Character, Guy

  "Ebersol’s Parting Thoughts". blogs.wsj.com. May 25, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

  Herman Gorter

  Europe, Judging, Might

  "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

  Joseph Jarman

  Sound, Asian, African Music

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

  Joseph Jarman

  Unique, Community, Western Culture

  10 Copy quote