West Quotes - Page 15

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

Even going to [ Kanye West] warehouse and modeling for a lot of his new season stuff taught me about my silhouette, how the clothes fit - I've definitely learned a lot being around him.

I visited the set [of Allied] a few times, and it was a great set to visit. A lot of it was in West London, in an old Gillette factory. You'd go into the factory through the security, and then there were a lot of camels and goats. Most sets are really dull, but this was fantastic.

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

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

So the problem in the West is that, especially in places like the USA, a person will obtain this much knowledge and immediately think that they have a large amount of knowledge. And then start to act on the basis of what they think, they posses. Instead of having this much knowledge and realizing that in fact this is only this much knowledge and the amount of where you can go there is where you came is much bigger than where you've already gotten.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

We have to cease the migration of Arab potential to the west; they should be respected in their own countries.

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed).

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.