627 Western Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems. Margarita Simonyan

Time Problems High Russia High Time Blaming Western Stopped Establishments

I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things - something where I get to do something physical and have to train for it. I don't want to be the damsel. Margot Robbie

Physical Something Horses Exciting Exciting Things Dude Doing Western Train Get Where Want Really Who Riding Things

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore. Mark Ruffalo

Nobody Does Western Westerns Want Anymore

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation. Mark Steyn

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. Marshall McLuhan

World Political Will Action Everywhere Insatiable Criterion Both Since Discover Infallibly Western Western World Essentially Where Agencies Century Congenial Mechanical Expression Appetite Enjoyment

Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence. Martin Jacques

History Political Achieve Monumental Scale Hasten Ability Objectives Both Never Leaders Failed Never Underestimate Underestimate Underlying Impotence Iraq Western Political Leaders Afghanistan Process Decline Served

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it. Martin Jacques

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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants. Martin Jacques

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney. Martin Jacques

Natural Result Pressure Birthright Thoroughly Attempt Attention Thwarted Countries Come Global Western Western Countries Accustomed Being Hold Regard Which China Centre Awarded Sydney Olympics

Sergio Leone came to see me when I was doing 'Mission Impossible.' He wanted me to do 'A Fistful of Dollars.' I turned him down. I didn't want to get stuck as a stoic Western movie star. Martin Landau

To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match. Martin Rees

War People Space Perception Cold Cold War Valid Indeed Respects Scale Perceived Superpower Throughout Rivalry Had Primarily Most Match Does NASA Motive Western Up Western Europe Efforts Soviet Space Exploration Exploration Europe Many Many Respects

People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter. Martin Scorsese

You People Matter Say OK Easy Classify Feel Know Comfortable Makes Western Want Really Gangster Film

East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography. Matt Cartwright

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There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen. Matt Gallagher

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It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story. Matthew Stover

Impossible Feel Tragic Western Quiet Front Story Novel Capture

While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance. Meles Zenawi

Progress Focus Building Transformation Mimicking Late Distance Ours Has-Been Systems Some Facets Rather Longer Institutions Democratic Governance Cover Been Western While Us Therefore Works Started

There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine. Melissa Etheridge

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My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America. Merrick Garland

'Unforgiven,' I think, is the best Western ever. Michael Biehn

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