West Quotes
1578 West quotes by 1160 unique authors
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
— Ramakrishna
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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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…
— Robert Redford
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I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast…
— Kid Rock
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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…
— Karl Rove
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Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of…
— Galen Rowell
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I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of mine. She lives…
— Kelly Rowland
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
— Salman Rushdie
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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
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
— Salman Rushdie
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
— Salman Rushdie
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of…
— Salman Rushdie
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as…
— Salman Rushdie
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune,…
— Salman Rushdie
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the…
— Salman Rushdie
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms.…
— Salman Rushdie
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This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing…
— Jerry Saltz
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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I…
— Adam Sandler
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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
— Marjane Satrapi
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This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.
— Marjane Satrapi
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The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple,…
— Grace Slick
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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