West Quotes - Page 3

• Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.

  Diane Kruger

  War, Struggle, Confusion

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• I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

  Mother Jones

  California, Southern, Railroads

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• I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Home, East, Mixtures

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1989). “Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India”, Vintage

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• As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, People, Together

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• I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Political, Foundation

  Interview with TF-1 Television Channel (France), en.kremlin.ru. July 12, 2006.

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• Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

  Nas

  New York, Attitude, War

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

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• I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

  Marlee Matlin

  Attitude, Wings, Example

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• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  Salman Rushdie

  Iran, Regimes, Fundamentalism

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• But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

  Buffalo Bill

  Strong, Loneliness, Character

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.

  Liam Neeson

  New York, Europe, People

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• It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

  Buffalo Bill

  Effort

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

  Christopher Columbus

  League, East, Sides

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• Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.

  Diablo Cody

  Ice, Wish, Storm

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• I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

  John Cleese

  Sports, Nuts, London

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• I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

  Henry Clay

  Patriotism, East, Stewardship

  Speech in the Senate (1848)

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• I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

  Marian McPartland

  New York, West Coast, Rhythm

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.

  Amy Chua

  Kids, Thinking, Rude

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• The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

  Martin Van Buren

  Home, Successful, Government

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.18

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• It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

  Martin Van Buren

  Home, Able, Cherokee

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

  Karl Rove

  Strong, Thinking, Wings

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• Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Crazy, Character, Islands

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• You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that’s what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or Ludacris ... they aren’t rappin’ and cussin’ like they were on their first few albums, so what does that make them? It’s all in the eye of the beholder and the listener. We all use our outlet to grow ourself.

  Luke Bryan

  Country, Eye, Inspire

  "Luke Bryan Laughs Off Country Music Stereotypes, Talks Growing Popularity Of Genre". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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• I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

  Beau Bridges

  Country, Native American, Relate

  "Q&A with Cast of TNT’s "Into The West"". Interview with Kevin Mark Kline, boston.edgemedianetwork.com. June 2, 2005.

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• 'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Moving, Philadelphia

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• My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

  Buffalo Bill

  Home, Wife, Given

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.363, U of Nebraska Press

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