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.
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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
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I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.
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“The bigness of the West makes men quiet; they seldom talk unless they have something to say.”
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Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, "You can't touch that now because you're a pop star."
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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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It is the West’s provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself.
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The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the first time has broken down. A new unity, however, has not yet emerged. We stand in this transitional period, this ‘interregnum’ which leaves its mark on every spiritual activity. The Conservative Revolution is conditioned by it, and at the same time sees itself as an attempt to overcome it.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
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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.
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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
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In Christ there is no East nor West.
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You don’t need miracles in the west. You have insurance.
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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.
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Turkey's relationship with the West is a love-hate one. There are people in Turkey who want to open to the outside world and others who are frightened of the outside world. They don't feel secure; they think that foreigners are trying to harm or even destroy Turkey. But that's not true of the majority of Turks, who want to exercise their skills in a global market.
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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.
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Poland is the natural bridge between East and West.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
