Western Quotes - Page 31

• Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

  Edward James Olmos

  Color, Gdp, People

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• Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Country, Song, Strong

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• The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Gdp, Western Culture, Should

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Country, Gdp, Western Culture

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

  Audrey Meadows

  Men, Gdp, Roles

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• Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

  Michael Novak

  Character, Years, Gdp

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• The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

  Richard P. Bland

  Country, Europe, Gdp

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• Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Land, Gdp, Ownership

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• In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

  Omar Bongo

  Gdp, Political, Democracy

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• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Sheep, Media, Gdp

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

  Jerry Springer

  Civilization, Gdp, Gum

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• It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

  Pearl White

  Girl, Gdp, Kind

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• Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

  Terry Southern

  Country, Gdp, World

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• I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

  Barry Corbin

  Thinking, Years, Gdp

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  Ornette Coleman

  Color, Gdp, Titles

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

  Terry Riley

  Gdp, Musical, Western Music

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• My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

  Preston Manning

  Gdp, Political, Canada

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• If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

  John Buford

  Gdp, Choices, Troops

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• Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

  Ulrich Beck

  Country, Gdp, Today

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• In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda.

  David Walker

  Home, Grieving, Usa

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• I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Insane, Doe

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• While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

  Mark Knopfler

  Song, Swings, Guitar

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• So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

  Milos Forman

  Media, Thank God, Switzerland

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• I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

  Julie Benz

  Riding, Fancy, Trails

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• Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

  Natan Sharansky

  Japan, Community, Democracy

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