West Quotes
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What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.
will.i.am
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There should be change - the West should understand our music and culture, and vice versa. With such collaboration, artists can come closer to each other and come to know each other.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Rudyard Kipling
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They were just one game out of first in the West and we knew they were going to come on strong in the second half.
Alana Beard
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The gradual colonization of the west from the Irish kingdom of Dál Riata during the first half of the first millennium AD, and the consolidation of their Gaelic kingdom in Scotland following their defeat by the Ui Neill, had an immense cultural impact in Scotland.
Bryan Sykes
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Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.
Bill Clinton
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The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West.
Sergey Lavrov
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Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
George Mikes
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Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.
Arthur Chapman
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We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
Silvia Cartwright
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In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
Brother Yun
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I am not from east or west
not up from the ground
or out of the ocean
my place is placeless
a trace of the traceless
I belong to the beloved
Rumi
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We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?
Red Cloud
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With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.
Bryan Ward-Perkins
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In Christ there is no East nor West.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
Rudyard Kipling
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We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.
Dalai Lama
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If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
Horace Greeley
