quotes about Western
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On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
-- Amos Oz -
For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
-- Andre BazinSource : André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.140, Univ of California Press
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The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.
-- Azim Premji -
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I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
-- Ben Katchor -
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
-- Bruce Boxleitner -
I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.
-- Bryan BrownSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
-- Camille Paglia -
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
-- Christopher Dawson -
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
-- Daniel Goleman -
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Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
-- Dario Fo -
Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
-- Edward Norton -
Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.
-- Franco Nero -
In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
-- Gary Snyder -
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Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.
-- Jacques Maritain -
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
-- Jim Dine -
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But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.
-- Julie Benz -
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.
-- Katharine Whitehorn -
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
-- Keith Carradine -
I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
-- Keith Carradine -
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Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.
-- Lawrence KasdanSource : "An interview with Lawrence Kasdan". www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.
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Unforgiven, I think, is the best Western ever.
-- Michael Biehn -
What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.
-- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -
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Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism
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. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.
-- Neil PostmanSource : Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.106, Penguin
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
-- Octavio Paz -
I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
-- Patrick WarburtonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
-- Pierre Schaeffer -
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
-- R. C. Sproul -
All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
-- Rebecca WestSource : Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.474, Open Road Media
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A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.
-- Richard JenkinsSource : "Richard Jenkins on 'Cabin In The Woods' and why he knows nothing about characters off the page". Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.
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We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.
-- Rick Perry -
The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.
-- Robinson Jeffers -
The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
-- Sam Peckinpah -
The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
-- Samuel L. Jackson -
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I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”
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The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
-- Sergio Aragones -
In general, the Western body has become a global brand.
-- Susie Orbach -
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
-- Zhang Yimou -
There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.
-- Ayshay -
I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.
-- Kehinde Wiley -
Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism.
-- Robert A. Williams, Jr. -
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Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.
-- Roberto Orci -
As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
-- Ti West -
Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.
-- Ti West -
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
-- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan -
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The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.
-- Peter Saunders