#west

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Jack Adams

#around #built #carrier #chicago #december

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#accepted #culture #eastern #ghosts #just

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me. ↗

— Moustapha Akkad

#being #beside #duty #felt #following

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#his way #i #jersey #new #new jersey

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#bias #coast #east #east coast #fact

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#agents #become #foreign #guys #intelligence

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#carry #certainly #could #debates #europe

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#am #attached #away #being #blown

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#attempt #been #brick #building #celebration