East Quotes - Page 35

• I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Sanctions, Chemical Weapons, Counselor

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• Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

  Tara Reid

  Girl, Coast, Faster

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

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• I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.

  Daniel Sunjata

  Artist, Thinking, Special People

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• I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Iraq, Space, Middle East

  "Andrew Sullivan: Dishing It Out Daily For A Decade". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 17, 2010.

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• There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  America, People, Firsts

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• In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Squares, Circles

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• The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Character, Years

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• I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

  Susan Sullivan

  Summer, Mother, Rivers

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

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• The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

  Robert Trout

  India, Monopoly, Company

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• In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the US and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Responsibility, Europe, Middle East

  Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger and Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 2, 2007.

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• There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

  Andy Williams

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.

  Dylan Walsh

  New York, Kind, Grew Up

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• In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  One Day, Body, Problem

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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, Mixtures, Study

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• I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

  Trygve Lie

  Disappointment, Past, Rivers

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• Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

  Jack Markell

  Sports, Law, States

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• I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

  Michael K. Williams

  Different, Culture, Brooklyn

  "Omar Little is the gay stick-up man who robs drug dealers for a living in The Wire" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2008.

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• I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

  Olivia Williams

  Eye, Artist, Trying

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• My explosiveness, I really couldn't show it at UCLA. It's still there. It's always been there. It was not a lot of running. It was a half-court game. Coach Howland came from the Big East and so you know that's a grind out game.

  Shabazz Muhammad

  Running, Games, Ucla

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• When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.

  C. Vivian Stringer

  Country, Iowa, Decision

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• I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

  Adele

  Girl, Song, Spices

  "Mad about the girl" by Sylvia Patterson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.

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• All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.

  Vikram Seth

  Prayer, Moving, Iron

  Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.117, Penguin Books India

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• Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them against Islamic laws. Irans Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass destruction weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we support the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]

  Ali Larijani

  Islamic, Mass Destruction, Iran

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• A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

  Melina Marchetta

  House, Clean, Middle

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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