#west

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. ↗

— Amos Oz

#cultured #more #parents #scale #something

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#beginning #bring #east #eastern #i

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#awash #bodybuilding #chemistry #defying #mathematics

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#deep down #down #hillbilly #i #just

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#know #society #western #western society #writers

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#evil #i #islamists #often #portray

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#came #give #hero #things #too

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.' ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#any #asian #baby #because #cinema

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#economic #every #expectation #general #globe

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Mike Pence

#capitol #capitol hill #declaration #democrats #economic