West Quotes - Page 16

I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.

I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point graduates and knew that some of those might not come back because of that decision.