West Quotes - Page 13

• 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 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 have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

  William Hurt

  Running, Long, Want

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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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 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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• The West to me is where the landscape is.

  Lee Friedlander

  Landscape

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• Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the 'evidence' being presented as fact and do NOT believe that the interference by Government will have much affect on changing temperatures or rainfall. Indeed as a gardener in the West of Scotland I look forward to warmer temperatures and more rain so will be doing nothing as an individual that can in any event be seen as tokenism to a perceived problem.

  Brian Donohoe

  Rain, Believe, Government

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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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• When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.

  Pol Pot

  Stress, Wish, Want

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Ends

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.

  Giorgio Armani

  Change, Running, Fashion

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• Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.

  Mark Steyn

  Strong, War, Party

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• Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
  More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Color, Topography, Maps

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.5, Macmillan

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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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• They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil.

  George Amos Dorsey

  War, Sleep, Fate

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• I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

  Kim Wilde

  Husband, Musical, Ends

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• The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

  Bernard DeVoto

  People, United States, Empires

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• In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Country, Spiritual, Morning

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• I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

  Melanie Brown

  Christmas, Eight, West Indies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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