#orient

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. ↗

— Edward Said

#almost #could #european #every #homer

Germany is very free-trade oriented. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#germany #oriented #very

I'm very goal oriented. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#i #oriented #very

I think naturally my orientation is from my father. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#i #i think #naturally #orientation #think

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations. ↗

— Josh Charles

#different #different backgrounds #different roles #job #many

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#ageism #basic #being #community #deny

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#am #asked #being #chicago #disorienting

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way. ↗

— Dick York

#confused #disoriented #felt #fortunately #god

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confusion #disorientation #excess #excessive #eye

And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#death #murder #murder-on-the-orient-express #myserty #death