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As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.
Pema Chodron
Culture
Women
Strong
Big
Our
Sign
Characteristics
Buddhism
Countries
West
Exist
Just
Moved
Place
Origin
Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
Pete Hoekstra
Rest
Country
Ideology
Intervened
Extremism
East
Libya
Weapons
Became
Affairs
West
Domestic
Did
Cradle
Africa
Middle
African
Where
Middle East
Europe
Exports
Because 9/11 was carried out by 19 foreign-born Arab hijackers, many assume that all terrorists who attack the West are foreigners.
Peter Bergen
Assume
Arab
Carried
Out
Attack
Because
Terrorists
West
Foreigners
Who
Many
Again and again since 9/11, terror attacks in the West have been carried out by second-generation Muslims who are citizens of the very country they are attacking.
Peter Bergen
Country
Carried
Out
Muslims
Citizens
Attacking
Attacks
Since
Terror
Been
West
Very
Again
Who
Using vehicles as weapons is a tactic that has often used by Palestinian terrorists to target Israelis, but in 2014, an ISIS spokesman had encouraged such vehicular attacks in the West, saying of ISIS' enemies, 'Run him over with your car.'
Peter Bergen
Saying
Enemies
Car
Run
Weapons
Tactic
Attacks
Had
Vehicles
Spokesman
Over
Him
Terrorists
Israelis
West
Encouraged
Target
Often
Your
Used
Using
Palestinian
Japanese children have infinitely more developed bodies than those in the West. From the age of two, a child learns to sit in a perfectly balanced manner; between two and three, the child begins to bow regularly, which is a wonderful exercise for the body.
Peter Brook
Age
Wonderful
Three
Sit
Those
More
Developed
Perfectly
Between
Bow
Balanced
Exercise
Learns
West
Than
Begins
Child
Infinitely
Children
Which
Japanese
Manner
Bodies
Body
Regularly
Two
My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.
Peter Hammill
Family
Mother
Tree
Saw
Had
Trace
She
West
Aunt
Up
Trying
Stopped
Grandfather
Turned
Who
Pakistani
Started
Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
Philip Emeagwali
Natural
People
Nation
Resources
Over
West
Lots
Human
Lacks
Endowed
African
Energetic
Natural Resources
Human Resources
Million
Nigeria
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
Philipp Meyer
You
Myth
Creation
Think
Our
Defines
About
Know
West
America
Wanted
Story
Certainly
Fundamental
I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.
Pico Iyer
Events
Islam
September
Completed
Months
Promised
Follow
Deliver
Because
Quarrel
Editor
West
Six
Just
Novel
Earlier
I am still fairly confident we will come out better than the West in terms of our overall development versus damage.
Piyush Goyal
Better
Will
Our
Out
Development
Come
Overall
Terms
Fairly
Am
Still
West
Versus
Than
Confident
Damage
I can't tell the people of India that we'll burden you with high costs because the West has polluted the world, now India will pay for it. Not acceptable to us.
Piyush Goyal
You
People
World
Burden
Will
Pay
Tell
High
India
Costs
Acceptable
Because
West
Polluted
Us
Now
Bollywood is not a stepping stone to the West. I am extremely picky and in no hurry to sign a Hollywood film. I am only greedy for great roles; language and country is no barrier. And yes, I'll always be a Hindi film star first.
Priyanka Chopra
Great
Language
First
Country
Greedy
Extremely
Sign
Hurry
Only
Stepping
Picky
Stepping Stone
Hindi
Always
Am
West
Yes
Roles
Stone
Hollywood
Barrier
Bollywood
Star
Film
Film Star
So many people from the West are coming into India, all the studios have come into India, and they're making films here, whether that's Fox, Warner Bros, Disney, everyone. That stands as testament for us, so why are we afraid of sharing our talent with the world? We must.
Priyanka Chopra
People
World
Films
Everyone
Our
Must
India
Bros
Sharing
Studios
Talent
Come
Making
Coming
Testament
West
So Many People
Afraid
Whether
Us
Warner
Warner Bros
Disney
Stands
Many
Why
Here
Fox
As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
Rabih Alameddine
Culture
Teenagers
Arabic
Looked
West
Lot
Did
Just
Want
Us
Much
I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.
Rachel Kushner
Car
Mind
Own
Young
State
My Own
Having
Adult
Nevada
Countless
Identify
Occasionally
Although
Am
West
Western
Motorcycles
Up
Times
Young Adult
Then
Landscape
Certainly
Growing
Growing Up
Grown
Grown-Up
Origins
In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
Raghav Bahl
World
Internet
Seen
Out
Indian
Something
Invisible
Clearly
Like
Force
Because
West
Huge
Up
Us
View
Media
Play
World View
Following the West is not surrendering. Following the West, the best of the West, is following originality.
Ram Gopal Varma
Best
Following
West
Surrendering
Originality
Young Indians are energetic and ambitious, have lots of ideas. They work around the difficult situation they face here. But the big challenge is to market products and services to the West, because costs there aren't coming down.
Ram Shriram
Work
Challenge
Face
Big
Situation
Young
Down
Difficult
Market
Indians
Costs
Ideas
Because
Around
Big Challenge
Coming
West
Lots
Ambitious
Energetic
Products
Services
Here
I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
Ramon Rodriguez
Sports
Management
Degree
College
Virginia
Because
West
Years
West Virginia
Going
Graduated
Happen
Realized
Then
NBA
NYU
Played
Two
Basketball
I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.
Randy Moss
You
Country
Big
Virginia
Outside
League
Know
Also
Sport
Redneck
Still
NASCAR
Were
West
West Virginia
Happening
My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.
Rashid Johnson
Me
Library
Bible
Mother
Young
Harold
Crisis
Introduced
Frederick
More
Writers
Like
Came
West
Intellectual
Intellectuals
Very
Which
Across
Skip
Her
Gates
I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.
Ravi Zacharias
You
Culture
Christian
East
Deal
Answers
Context
Issues
West
Cultural
Cultural Issues
Questions
Middle
Middle East
Whether
Far
Then
Far East
Orient
Present
I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.
Reba McEntire
Life
Me
Ranch
Way
Oklahoma
Cattle
Always
West
Western
Cowboy
Up
Very
Romantic
Grew
Working
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
Rebecca MacKinnon
World
Internet
Difficult
About
Outside
Outside World
Real
West
Contradiction
China
Explain
A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.
Rebecca MacKinnon
People
Critical
Understand
West
Lot
China
Chinese
Why
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