It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that. — Bill Kurtis Copy Share Image
The longer I lived in the east, the more completely I realized that, for better or worse, I was going to be,… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago. — Eric Lefkofsky Copy Share Image
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back.… — Katherine Moennig Copy Share Image
I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the… — Luke Goss Copy Share Image
Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are… — Darrell Issa Copy Share Image
Today President Obama is in the Middle East. He met the new king of Saudi Arabia. Obama also met Saudi Arabia's first… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
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… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
“Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw. "I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment. — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
The ISIS situation is not just “their problem to deal with in the Middle East,” it’s OUR PROBLEM because it involves people… — Perry Noble Copy Share Image
In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete. — Li Hongzhi Copy Share Image
On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced. — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East. — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East… — Adeline Yen Mah Copy Share Image
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