West Quotes - Page 10

• Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.

  Arthur Chapman

  Smile, Stronger, Littles

  "Out Where theWest Begins" l. 1 (1916)

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• I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

  Gordon Cooper

  Europe, Two, Flying

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• One of the West's singular migrations - from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley - is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read...

  Gerald Haslam

  Loss, Land, Voice

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• Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel.

  Gerald Haslam

  Memorable, Son, Dawn

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• John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue

  Bradley Whitford

  Couple, Writing, Past

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• According to some reports coming out of Washington today, President Obama said Kanye West is a 'jackass.' Not since 'yes, we can' has Obama found a slogan so many Americans can get behind.

  Conan O'Brien

  Yes We Can, President, Today

  "American Morning" with John Roberts and Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 16, 2009.

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• I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

  Harry Belafonte

  School, West Indies, Students

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• I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell.

  Harry Belafonte

  Country, Style, Faults

  "Belafonte won't back down from Powell slave reference", www.cnn.com. October 16, 2002.

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• I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Uncles, Stupid

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• I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

  Joe Scarborough

  Thinking, Sides, Republican

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• I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

  David Spade

  Fighting, Guy, West Coast

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

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• In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Romantic, Stars, Hero

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

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• I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

  Leona Lewis

  Towns, Ends, Not Sure

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• I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

  Sara Paxton

  Grease, Musical, Stories

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• The West to me is where the landscape is.

  Lee Friedlander

  Landscape

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• I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

  Edward Abbey

  New York, Heart, Virginia

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Police, Musical

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

  Edward Abbey

  Scientist, Willing, Mere

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• Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Land, Degrees, Development

  "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Turner 2

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• Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.

  Lana Del Rey

  Feelings, West Coast, Happens

  Song: West Coast Lana Del Rey, Album: Ultraviolence, 2014

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• A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, Order, Water

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 06, 2011

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• Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

  Wallace Stevens

  Keys, Becoming, Artistic

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.278, Univ of California Press

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• In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history.
  That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.

  Michele Bachmann

  Men, Years, East

  "Bachmann burns up Iowa". www.politico.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Stupid, Islam, Nonsense

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.

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• In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Color, Gone Away, White

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